No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

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.

We speak the truth because we live in truth.

It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.

I figured I wasn't supposed to be capable of that kind of thinking, and I felt like an alien. I feel that a lot, actually, in a lot of circumstances. Like I ought to be feeling something I don't.

Ambition is the intellectual equivalent of body odour.

I'm usually always very happy and funny and positive. It's only when I'm tired that I get a little low energy.

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

The first revolution is when you change your mind

I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.