There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

True inner peace can startle you! Be happy, smile, have fun. But only look for inner peace when you actually need it. After all, it is the fusion of every atoms of reality itself.

Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness.

We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...

Fear always springs from ignorance.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

It's President [Barack] Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default.

One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.

There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.