Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

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.

God heals the human heart from any brokenness.

Reality is what you look at and what you make of it. All in between is how you are.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now.

I thought Obama was brilliant. He's so informed. He's circumspect. He's articulate. He's thoughtful. Well, I think in my lifetime, there's never been anything like it.

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

Cars are necessary, but take a more humble one. Think of how many children die of hunger and dedicate the savings to them.

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.