Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

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.

Anyone who hates anyone, only hates themselves.

I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

Life is worth being lived, but not being discussed all the time.

There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.

Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.