The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The great ideological battles between liberalism and communism, or between democracy and authoritarianism, have been replaced by a general consensus on the desirability of liberal democracy.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

"Reality is not what happens to us, but what we make of what happens to us."

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.