It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

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.

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

Sometimes your talent can steer you away from your passion.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confidence of their help.

I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.

We will be just as ruthless as any of our targets. We will go for the throat.

The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.

I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.

Look at the other side of things even if you know you'll never agree. It creates empathy.

If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.