I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

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.

Don't always seek the approval of others concerning your goals or dreams. Not everyone wants to see you succeed, just because they are not successful.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.

Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.

All men are not rapists - but almost all rapists are men.

I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.