What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

Everything is permitted, Nothing is true.

You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.

Love is moral even without legal marriage but marriage is immoral without love.

Nothing can motivate me any more than I'm motivated.

I deal with haters on a daily basis.

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.

I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.