If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

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.

Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

The stress stops here

I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

God is at home. We are in the far country.

To capture an enemies army is better than to destroy it.