Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

One truly understands only what one can create.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

You can start from the ordinary bizzare to the extraordinary incredible

I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

I’d like to take care of someone but at the same time I like girls who are independent.

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

I draw like other people bite their nails.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.