Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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.

Never make the mistake of believing forberance equates to acceptance, or that all positions are equally valid.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

When you get a black belt, it’s not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.

So you decided to help us by killing the guy we were talking to?" Clary demanded "Because you thought he had a shady past? Who- who does that? It doesnt make any sense.

Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth.

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.