Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Barba non facit philosophum

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

[Working with survivors] it's just a whole different level of concern and that is something that was categorically different working on this film than any other project we had done.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.

Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.

Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.