In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

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.

Of everything we must first ask: is it real or not?

In every situation, we can find sacred lesson.

Any time a beloved character is killed off, it affects the audience in a very powerful way, especially in a series.

Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.

The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.

Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.

God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.