The less men think, the more they talk.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own voice.

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

Anything that's slightly dangerous and gets the heart rate going is my kind of workout.

I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.

It's only the losers named Dave that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think. They're named Dave.

Something clenched in my chest, and for a moment, the whole world narrowed down to the green of his eyes.

I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in.

There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex theory of math can be built up from very basic parts.

If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.