Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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.

You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.

Eyes which feast on the beauty of the world will always look beautiful to others. That which receives beauty exudes it as well.

I can't be a wizard. I'm just Harry." Harry Potter

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.