When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Freedom is from within.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast