Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

In a major matter no details are small.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.

It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit.

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.

I'm a firm believer in God and I don't think he'd want me acting a certain way.

Rap will never be the same as before

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.

Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).