Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

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.

We kiss with our eyes closed but our senses open, infusing the spaces between with the elements of the other.

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

Pilates is definitely my favorite workout because it's hard but at the same time relaxing.

Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

I'm twice as old, but I feel good.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.