People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

One truly understands only what one can create.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Understanding arises through making

I can only control my actions, not their reactions, " Senna replied. "But I have to live with both.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

It feels kind of naughty when you're swearing on set and you know it's gonna make it in unbleeped on the show.

But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.

We cannot achieve our wildest dreams by remaining who we are

See in what peace a Christian can die.

The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.

I'm connected to both places because I already feel like New York is my home. But then again I feel like L.A. is my new home and Israel is my real home.

Make sure they remember you.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.