Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.

Success has always been a product of having an unstoppable drive to make each day count creatively and productively.

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

Leaving your ears open to the suggestions of others only closes the mind's eye, thereby creating a type of spiritual glaucoma.

The best use anyone can make of any day is to enjoy it - and then spread that joy to others.

I am me. I have to define myself. I'm going to stand up at the back of the train and take control of my future.

Don't wait the time is never just right.

I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill.