Nature itself cannot err

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.

Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

It has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer.

The greatest gift you can give an author is turning the page.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Dreams seem to have a will of their own.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.

I love the success of my teammates more than my individual achievements. I've just always cared more about that since I started playing.

Don't make excuses! Make changes!