Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

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.

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless. Love is willing to completely give up your life for someone, to make sacrifices and put them first.

I love working in the theater.

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

Donald Trump really believes that the more you help wealthy people, the better off we'll be and that everything will work out from there.

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.

I didn't take many penalties but I never missed one. You just need to stick to your plan.