It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less 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.

Perhaps, in a few people, I have seen what can be described as a struggle with death, and it can be distressing to behold. But for the vast majority of people death is gentle, tender.

I want to make great songs.

It's mighty funny. The end of time has just begun.

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

TED-The Empowerment Dynamic-counteracts the poison of DDT, the Dreaded Dram Triangle. TED is the antidote for DDT.

Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.