Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

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.

Brushing a girl’s hair behind her earonce a daywill solve more problemsthan all thosetherapists and drugs.

A tiny spark ignites a flame, just as a helping hand can do the same

Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.