Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

Never let anyone distract your focus from accomplishing great opportunities in your life .

You bring out a passion in me I’ve never felt for anyone.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

Reality itself is too twisted.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

You can fool me once, you can even fool me twice, you can even fool me thrice. But you can never fool me four

If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.

Everyone knows innovation involves developing unique understanding of a market, thinking expansively to develop a solution, and then finding a way to test rigorously and adapt quickly.

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

[Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III