No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

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.

Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means it no longer controls our lives

Never disagree, agree to reach the destination in a different way.

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.

What's obvious to you is obvious to you.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.

It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.