I would rather discover one scientific fact than become King of Persia.

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

God can be addressed, but not expressed.

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.

The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams.