Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.