The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that.

You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.

This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.

I think it is always tough no matter where you are in your journey. Always staying focused and knowing why you are doing what you are doing.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.

From soul to soul, and heart to heart. May you be blessed, I wish to impart.

You do some things and you just hope people will laugh.