Money is economic power.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

I can’t believe I was almost too chicken to play Captain America.

I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

It's rare to have a best friend who is also your brother and also an NFL football player, and he knows exactly what I'm talking about.

There is no right government except good government.

Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.

When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.