Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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.

I guess we’re all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we use a broad brush to paint our exemplary lives, we splatter ourselves with ignorance.

Money talks. If it's the dollar, it's small talk.

Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.

I don't know how long i could be a vet before i got bored and started shagging stuff.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

What will happen will happen, what won't happen won't happen.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

It's difficult for them to do a deal at these levels.

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

Some folks believe that global warming doesn't exist and that the environment doesn't need any help. I tend not to listen to them.