Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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 photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.

Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

Naught will be done to you that you doona wish done. Dageus MacKeltar

I don't think that I'm modest by any means, but I'm also not an exhibitionist.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God's extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the divine therapy.