There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
For an athlete myself, it is especially meaningful for our country to host an Olympics. Every athlete hopes to participate in an Olympics, so I still can't believe the games of dreams is going to take place in Korea.
I'm inspired by fashion. I'm inspired by the moonlight. I'm inspired by sex and pornography and slasher films.
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest; fear nothing but infamy; dare anything but injury; the measure of magnanimity is neither to be rash nor timorous.