With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

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.

Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.

Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

X-Men films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.

Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.

So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.