It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.

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.

Live a simple life, doing what you love.

Sometimes, to protect a secret we will say it so openly that most will not suspect the truth of what we are saying.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

I'm not pro-government at all, I'm pro-people.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.

I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.