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.

Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

We change and it's uncomfortable. We flow for a time and then it's awkward.

Sometimes love isn't fireworks. Sometimes, love just comes softly.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.