No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

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.

Live in the moment! Yesterday is gone forever, tomorrow is yet to come, but you have right now. Live in the moment!

Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.

How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?

There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.

How now, wit! Whither wander you?