Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

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 don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.

All our prayers can't keep a single leaf from falling.

Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.

You have to have a good race plan. Our race plan this morning was to win the heat and get into the finals tonight. Tonight will be the big race.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.

Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.

Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.