The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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.

Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illusion of life

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

Have you fallen in love with wrong person yet?

America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.