Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

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 worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

You are a winner

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

It’s very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that’s something that resonates for me.

The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we're still alive, before we die.

A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

I never want to make a movie which is going to be CG filled, cold, and computerized.

I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.