Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

You will attract love when you are the source of love.

Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

I love to engage people who think differently than I do.

I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that bonds you as opposed to being Jewish from Poland, or Jewish from Hungary.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I'm trying to learn my lesson.

First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.

I often really like to play with documenting my performances cinematically. Cinematic documentation is much more interesting than the performance itself.

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.