religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

Push my buttons, and I'll push you off a bridge.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.

As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

We are the administrators of our money. We will have to give God an account of the use we make of it up to the last cent.

I stay healthy through eating well, working out - simply living a healthy lifestyle.

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.