The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it.

One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.

Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.

Definitely being a mom changes your perspective on everything.

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.