The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

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 cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.

The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"

Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.

Before I tried LSD, I'd been going to a psychologist for a couple of years. I found out about success that you have to fight for it a lot, then when you achieve it, you can't give up the fight.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

The Jew is an inborn Communist.

I get to represent a lot of different types of women because of my ability to transform into these different people.