Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

All political power is a trust.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

When your economy is kind of ooching along, it's important to let people have more of their own money.

I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.