There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

Moments are the elements of profit

What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time socially necessary for its production.

As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.

If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends

O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip Hath virgined it e'er since.