It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!

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.

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

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.

Some slight awareness in the back of her mind, beneath the pain, told her she was free.

Teach me, O Lord, to glory in my cross. Teach me the value of my thorns. Show me how I have climbed to You through my path of pain. Show me that it is through my tears that I have seen rainbows.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

I love you. I love you just the way you are. I love you so much!" ~Kyo

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

I'm infamous, a joke. It doesn't make me feel good, because I'm a genuine person, but I don't let it get to me, because I am who I am.