No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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.

It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right.

It would be wrong to kill oneself if one did not know exactly the nature of one's eyes.

The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

The club is much more important than me, the fans are much more important than me so it's not for me. I'm not working for me, I'm working for the club, for the fans. That's the way I look at things.

Dry creek glimpsed by lightning

Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.

Donald Trump doesn't believe that the Constitution is a suicide pact.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.