Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

Philosophy is doubt.

GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.

I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. It was those quiet moments alone when I just hated the person I had become.

Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.

To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.

By the grace of God, I'll be that man.

Hungry bellies have no ears. [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical manoeuvre. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.