[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

Patience pays off, success and miracle, often in a very big way.

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

I've always been comfortable in the skin that I'm in.

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

The squares of the periodic times are proportional to the cubes of the mean distances from the sun.

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.