As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

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.

When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

It is funny what a year can do.

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

Life gave me everything I asked If all I asked was not a great deal, that's my problem!

I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.