Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

If you would know and not be known live in a city.

If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.

Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.

Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you

There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

Find me now. Before someone else does.

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

Be careful what you pray for.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.