Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act.

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

I never forgive but I always forget.

I'm not trying to be this cool girl. If you're trying to be something you're not, it's slowly going to bite you in the butt.

I have learned a lot about good and evil - they are not always what they appear to be.

I've never been particularly maternal.

I never aspired to be anything. What I've done is beyond my wildest.

Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.

Gastronomy has to catch up to the evolution in technology.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable