Every animal loves itself.

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 reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

I'll love you until I'm ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I'll love you even more.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet.

...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

I had a nice childhood. War and all the experiences affected me as a person and helped me to grow, to change.

I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought I'd be the one to end it.