It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

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.

Man is in his own microcosm akin to a personal box, with poetry as its lid which it can defend itself from the world

The key is putting into practice what God has taught you through His Word.

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

It would be so nice to write songs that end up being timeless.

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]

Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't. So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.

Be kinder than expected.