The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

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 does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Be kind to everyone, everyone is going through something

One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'

My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.

I see myself working, making a living and doing projects that I'm passionate about, regardless of the medium.

We need more extreme movies in Sweden.Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.