What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity

A little piece of everywhere I go becomes a big part of everything I do.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself.

How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.