Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.
No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.
Education made us what we are.
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can't answer for anybody else.
We live in very, very, very dangerous times.
I think it's time we take a step back and recognize that while we are hurting our animals, we are hurting each other, and we are hurting our planet.
I remember one time I went to a party and I had to interview Reese Witherspoon. She was just in this movie "Freeway," it's like 1996. To prepare for the interview I went to meet her at this release party, and I end up getting in this fist fight with a guy. I'm not much of a fighter but I get in this fight and the press was all there and they saw me, and all of a sudden the next day in the paper was 'Simon Rex and his posse get in scuffle, and Simon crashes a bottle over a guy's head after smoking crack in the bathroom. ' I saved the article forever.