Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

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.

True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.

In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love - that is the spiritual goal of life.

Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else. Thank you, Confucious.

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.

The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears.

You ever think Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like a football team? And the only real difference between us is what we wear and why we wear it?