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

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.

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.

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

I screeched with frustration, which in hindsight is never okay when there are people trying to kill you.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.

Wait for a miracle and it will never come. Take responsibility and you'll invite a miracle.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

Faith journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.