Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.

Why lie, Robert? Why lie? You know that lying is the alcoholics kryptonite, you can’t afford it, the reasonable voice in his head screamed.

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.