Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

Technically, you don't pay me.And technically, most of what I do is "think."I...rrr. ummm.And when you get right down to it, I'm better at it than you are.-Ennesby & Captain Tagon

If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Science is the discovery of how God does things.

The truth will come out in the end.

Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures.

Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.

I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.