Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

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.

The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that's exactly why we end up loving the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE.

Stop searching and start revealing the treasures that reside inside of your heart.

Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.

Why all this death?You might as easily ask ‘Why all this life?’.

Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful.

I love Stroker Ace. I love the whole team. Jim Nabors really stole the show, and Ned Beatty, well I've made more of my movies with Ned Beatty than anybody else.

I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion.

My sisters and I can still recite Dad's grilling rules: Rule No. 1: Dad is in charge. Rule No. 2: Repeat Rule No. 1.

Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.