Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

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.

It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before. He was beyond the reach of all the things that had weighed him down and hemmed him in.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

No! If you die, I die! You asked me to spend forever with you, and I'm going to!

A sense of duty - you only really get this feeling when you have a child. You always only used to be responsible for yourself and then there is also a child.

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

I definitely have been known to be grossly insensitive in many different ways, you can ask the wife. To speak without a filter sometimes and not being able to edit myself with much sensitivity.

If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.