Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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.

Fiction is the best the self-help book.

Power engenders the evil-minded who ill-treat the needy in all parts of the world.

The sea is very beautiful and gives us many things, but it must be understood and respected, or it will slap you ...

The legacy we leave behind should be better than the legacy we inherited”.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

I've always been like, "Look, you're going to die and it's not going to matter after you die that you got out onstage and bombed."

I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.

Once a child gets into your heart, there’s no right or wrong about it.

I've also never written anything really in LA.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.