Religion is the pious worship of God.

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.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

There is no chance for old fools.

People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

Blaming Obama for Iraq violence is like blaming Daniel Craig because Octopussy sucked.

If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there.

He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.