It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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.

Every book has it's destiny, Like a human life, Sometime when an Author is dead the destiny of the book begins" The days of Childhood !!!!!

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

Maybe having to pretend to be in love with someone and then jump into bed with them breaks the ice very quickly friendship follows fast.

Success lives with no address as people keep searching for it in spite of making any amount or level of progress

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

I am not a keyboard person. The mouse is better.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

Don't let your opinion sway your judgment.

Cigarrettes make you look cool