Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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.

Chiropractors correct abnormalities of the intellect as well as those of the body.

When poems are no good they don't make any sense.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.

I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered away.

People will do as they are told by someone who outranks them, but they will only follow someone they believe in.

It wouldn't be bad to look like a cross between Rita Hayworth and Elizabeth Taylor.