An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation of the empirical facts.

It is faith and not reason which impels men to action. ... Intelligence is content to point out the road but never drives us along it.

The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

I'm definitely never going to be a biker. I'm scared of cars so the idea of riding a motorcycle is just never going to be something that I'm into.

When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.

We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.