There is not a moment without some duty.

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.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

Make your life an inspiring story meant to be read in bed during a sleepless night of despair.

At time of peace, we should love one another.At war, we should set our minds as the hunters.

I have an amazing wife, Tia, and an amazing son, Cree, and I'm a family man first and they keep me grounded. They're my support system, so they make me stronger.

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.

There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

It is great that soccer can unite people for one day. It is something politics has often tried, and we were able to do it today. All people became brothers.