The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

One truly understands only what one can create.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Understanding arises through making

A strategic IT is a silver lining for a high-performing business.

She looked at ways to quantify life. Analytic in nature, her head almost always overruled her heart. Love it? Hate it? She wanted to KNOW it.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.

Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.