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.

The less men think, the more they talk.

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.

Work gives us access and opportunities.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

Why would anybody not own a gun?

I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision.

But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them.

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.