Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

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.

To maintain our own economy, we are disturbing the nature's economy

I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.

'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.

It's too late and it's too bad, don't think of me.

I don't believe there's a baseball job that I couldn't take care of.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

I never fronted, you can get it if you want it... Won't say I'm the best, but I'm not that far from it.

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

It is incredible to me that my Twitter feed is a source of 'news' for every rock news outlet around the world.