The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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.

No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people, if you don’t love yourself then it can never be enough.

You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I've got to be conscious of that.

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Every time you think you can’t do something... someone else thinks they can.