Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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.

When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.*

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

You cannot fathom your mind.... The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

Half talent is no talent.

A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.