I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

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.

Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.

The power of ignorance can make a powerful man look powerless

One does not become a great swimmer by swimming in shallow waters.

The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

I have such a lovely life and I just never imagined that I would miscarry a baby.

Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.

So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together. I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If they need to look at explicitly sexual material to be aroused there is a problem.