Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

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.

Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle?

There's something specificabout the doves' wayof living my lifeas a natural result of today since it's raining

My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen—numb.

Judges are apt to be naive simple-minded men.

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

Falsehoods border on truths.

The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.

To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.