The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

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.

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.

A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.

We are mere bundles of habits.