Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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 lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?

Surely, I am being rewarded because I have you.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

I'm really drawn to European films.

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.