Let each man have according to his deserts.

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 dreamer dies, but never dies the dream

My problem is not that I don't want to play, it's that I don't want to live!

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

I love the idea of expanding the universe of games to some extent. At one point, they were kind of limited to boys, fanboys and whatever. I like the idea of liberation for games.

If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

Let's respect women for the value - let's respect everyone, men and women, for the value they bring to the workplace.

When in doubt, ingest carbs.

Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.