Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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.

Sudden changes are always acceptable for me. What a weather !! Happy !!

You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.

Your purpose on earth is to participate in this human experience and to seize the opportunity within each day to reveal the greatest version of yourself.

Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.

I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.