Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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.

The challenge, it turns out, isn’t in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by. The challenge is getting into the habit of

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.

It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.

It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

I'm a writer who just happens to draw.

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.

I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life.