When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

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.

Excellence is not a history, but a habit.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become.

I'm not really keen on men wearing perfumes. It's just a bit wrong! I don't find it sexy. I prefer essential oils - patchouli is nice.

Actually, you know who gave the shortest inauguration speech in history? George Washington. It was only like three minutes long. Well, sure. George Washington couldn't tell a lie.

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.