...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

It his mind, they reminded him of ‘Tweedle Dee’ and ‘Tweedle Dum’, with an extra emphasise placed on the ‘Dum’!

Money never sleeps, pal

Your happiness—and your healing—are a function of how you choose to respond on the inside to that which is taking place on the outside.

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive.

My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.

You can't be human alone.

But the scars are always there, waiting for something to poke them.

All the literati keep An imaginary friend.