He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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.

Believing in miraculosity makes it even more available to us.

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.

The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.

I mostly drive around in a Fiat 500 TwinAir, and that's a pretty small car!