I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.

My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.

Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

That girl is pretty kinky, the girl's a super-freak, I'd really like to taste her.

I once dated a girl that was wild. She was so wild that one night she gave her phone number to the mechanical bull.

The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.

Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.

The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.