The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Are you trying to get run over by a cab? Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.