I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

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.

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

The say money talks, but I've seen it sing, and even seen it dance.

Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare.

I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.

I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.

We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.