I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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.

Forgiveness is the road of love.

'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.

With a family of six, there is always something to make, create and do together.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

I like to remind myself, as a parent, that God holds me responsible to, not for, my children!

A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more...

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.