“At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.”

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

Official truth is not actual truth.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

I just want to do whatever makes me happy…Like being totally conscious. Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do. Being with friends, having fun…being a bit daft.

A friend of mine helped me find my confidence by trusting the knowledge that I was not alone in writing my first book.

The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.

I dont have that many friends.

Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

When children are little, they really need you in one way. When they’re bigger, they need you as a friend.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.