The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.

The spiritual work builds upon awareness, increases consciousness, transforms it, merges it with the divine, and this is how to reach true spirituality in life.

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

We have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. Sometimes it's just not going to work out.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!