There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

A life without challenges isn’t alive.

Sometimes you have to choose between being strong and being honest, if you want real answers.

The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

A lot of times, magazines end up presenting me as some type of weirdo, but I make my music for everyday people.

No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.