Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

Sometimes God leads us to a place where we have nowhere to turn but to Him; our only option is to trust Him.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.'

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.