As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

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.

Wisdom is available free of charge, but one has to give away somethings to acquire it!

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.

In the 1970′s I made horses out of real mud and sticks. They were, in part, meant to reflect how much a horse is part of his environment. I combined the figure and the ground.

Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.

Protect me from what I want.

If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

I learned to live in my own head. I learned to follow intuition and more than anything, I learned what was important to me.