The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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.

Love never had a stronger pull, then from Souls coming together for a joint purpose.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.

I got nothing to lose cause i got nothing.

I think I've always approached making albums pretty much the same way. I'm just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren't the same thing over and over.

I have soundtracks for a lot of stuff.

Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust?

The pleasure of eating something because it is expensive has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of good cuisine.

Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.

Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.