It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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 cabin on the lake is nothing compared to my mansion in eternity!

He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.

How to prepare someone for leadership:I do it.I do it and you watch.You do it and I watch.You do it.You do it and someone else watches.

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.

My goal is to always play interesting and very odd women.

Use your head; cut off theirs.

It's easy to say I love you with your mouth. But I like when people say I love you with their heart.

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.