Reason is the Soul of the Law.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Some friends gladly stay, some move away. Some come and go, but their affections grow. While some, I recall, are not friends at all.

I have never been afraid of dying, I have only been afraid of not living fully.

I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!

After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.