He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

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.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

If you put forth a small amount of effort, you just might find your next best friend for life is of a different race than your own.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

I'm not trying to be coy, but I think everyone notices these things like skin color but some people are more aware that they are noticing them than others, maybe. If that makes sense.

It feels kind of good to be [on Sundance]. There is a sense of unification and community and voices rising together, and that all feels good.

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

I don't particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.

If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.