Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

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.

Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.

The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

A writer is someone who has written something today

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

The 'Idea of India' is an India of opportunity and aspiration. An India where: all are prosperous and happy, all are free from illness.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

There's no such thing as an animal too big too kill, AND we're cornered by such animals every day.