Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.

The most wonderful things that life can offer do not have price tags.

Unless individuals have the power to defy commoditization and define their own lives, their potential is vulnerable to the crushing forces of objectification.

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.

I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.