The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Keep your circle of friends small, tight and right

Once upon a time in a basement library nook, I stumbled upon my first favorite book.Pulled into adventure as the pages unfurled, I found treasures greater than gold or pearls.

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

Peanut butter - the pâté of childhood.

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

I'm kind of a creature of habit. Once I get used to doing things, it's like second nature.

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

You cannot make a cheap palace.