It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

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.

Why are we miserable, when there is music?

And they danced with laughter and tears. They swung each other round and round, the first and last time in years.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.

There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.

Beware of the clever ones; the dumb ones are safer.

I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

It's been tough for me being away from the game.