Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

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.

Your brain needs plenty of rest to function at it's optimal level. Go to sleep!

Forget "six degrees of separation" today it's "six degrees of CONNECTION.

A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.