American Quotes

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. O