"That is something I'm very passionate about. I love animals so much. To think that any animal would be trapped — it makes me so sad. It's like living in your bedroom for your entire life and never being able to go outside. … You should always speak up. That's what I'd like to teach my fans — to be real and speak up for things you're passionate about."

"The amount of constituency, so to speak, on which the new Louisiana government rests, would be more satisfactory to all, if it contained fifty, thirty, or even twenty thousand, instead of only about t…"

"Separate wealth from value. All living things have value. We impart this value upon lifeless things to give them worth not vice versa."

"Houdini used to pull rabbits out of a hat, but he never tried to make a living out of selling them when he had pulled them out of the hat"

"So far as Christianity is concerned it would puzzle the most zealous of its defenders to indicate a single direction in which it did anything to encourage the slightest modification of the spirit of i…"