'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

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.

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

For harmonious living

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.

I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too."

The Tibetans have many teachings on how to die, consciously, and how to remain in the clear light, and it works. You can see it working, and they can stay in that state for hours, days, or weeks.