Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

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.

The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.

compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust, ... trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams...

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

I'm a supporter of Israel, always have been.

Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

I mean, it's so normal for everybody to have a huge ego, it's great. It's great. Otherwise, everybody would act like Bono, you know, really big.

Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.