Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

When we allow ourselves to be authentically free, it raises our vibration.

It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...

I have a tremendous passion for fitness, I love challenges and I am a very driven guy.

Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

From the very beginning Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

Whats fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.