There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

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.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance - wild and arrhythmic, desperate. Passionate.

Today is a new day with boundless love and endless possibilities at your door.

Kissing girls is not like science, nor is it like sport. It is the third thing when you thought there were only two.

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.

The sole equality on earth is death.

I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

Other heights in other lives, God willing.

Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can.