Reputation is the road to power

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

You don’t count or matter when you don’t live an effective life

It means something, but it doesn't change anything.

Anxiety is who people want you to be. Calm is who you are.

I couldn’t wait for success ― so I went ahead without it.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

You get up in the morning because you might meet a woman. And if you stay at home by yourself, alone, you will not meet a woman.

For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful!

My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.