It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

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.

I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.

Survival requires guts and instinct.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won't filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.