What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in allplaces, in all times.

Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.

The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.

Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop...

Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now.

When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.