Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

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.

A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.

Live and love with your soul's goodness and inner beauty as your heart leaps upward in any season of your life.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

Climate change is real. In order to alter this reality, we need all hands on deck.

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

Some people say you can get hepatitis if you do coke with ones because they've been handled so much. But I tested that theory out for about a year, and I decided it's bullshit.