In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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.

Having a vision for your life is like having wider wings to fly high in the sky of your life.

[God] alone is perfect. Even His anger is righteous, because it is directed solely against evil.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.

Know me for my abilities, not my disability.

It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.