Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

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.

Choice, what people really want, is the most important thing. Choosing the life you want, making your own choices-that is what defines you as human.

...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.

Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.

I want to thank everybody, all my fans in Israel, all the children, everybody, it's amazing.

No matter what system the magician chooses, in order to make it work most effectively he or she must first become attuned to that system's particular way of viewing of the universe.

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.