We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

Fill your papers with the breathings of your heart.

Terminological inexactitude

Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.

I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly.

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.

By the early seventies I had become an Englishman - that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.

Just because you're damaged doesn't mean you must damage others. You have choices. We all make them every day.

"Eureka" is Greek for "This bath is too hot."