True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

You can only govern men by serving them.

The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

The moon only dares compete with the stars when the sun is in its corner.

The proof that most people don’t know how to measure their life by converting time into products is reflected in what they do with their free vacation time.

You’d have been scared too if that big troglodyte had put his hands on you. He smelled like dirty socks and store brand cola.” Chet Andrews

Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.