“We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.”

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

You can only be free if I am free.

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

Don’t just sit there looking at me. Come closer my love. Tonight I want you under my sheets.

Pay close attention to those who don’t clap when you win.

I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.

I want a love that shouts from the rooftops holds me close in bed, wants to show me off and will forever hold my hand.

If feel like we not close as we was and it’s hurting me.

Refrain from giving pieces of yourself to those who get close, for people leave, and gifts that are given cannot be returned.

Stay close to the people who make you smile on your bad days.

I close my eyes and I see you. I open them, and I’m blind.