To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

You must dare to make new voyages.

Many a soul will turn back to accustomed marshlands of defeat rather than brave the fogs of frustration

If some talents were withheld, the Withholder knows why. He has done all things well.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

When I swore that you're getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

Tribeca has always celebrated the most exciting new forms of storytelling, from video games to virtual reality.

Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.

I didn't really say everything I said.