There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

All political power is a trust.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

When I started having a couple of beers and loosening up, I realized how many years I had wasted going back to my hotel room alone when I could have gone and just had a beer or two.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

All media is moving, at light speed, toward development through viral channels.

You shouldn't give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

I really like to work with people who know a lot, but they also give me space so I can add something to the movie.