Hatred is settled anger.

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.

One, two, three, Im gon be crazy and free.

You can, of course, write to inspire others… but most importantly, you must write to inspire yourself.

When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.