Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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.

Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular.

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

I think the harder the shoot, the more I feel like I'm enjoying myself.

The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out.

I am a member of that small, little group that covers - I'm a member of the White House correspondents association. I go to the White House every day.

Theosophy blesses the world; Theology is its curse.

This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.

The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.