So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

The hardest thing is to make this little space for yourself where you can think and not get inundated with other stuff coming in.

I'm just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly.

They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

I think science is real.

I'm not a complicated person.

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.

I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.