For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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 only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whole world.

You can't trust others unless you trust yourself.

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.

I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.