Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

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.

He has his head in the clouds. He must live in a skyscraper.

Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.

A beautiful sidenote is, once the toxins and dramas are removed, you purify your life. Simplify and purify. What better way to live your life? Simple and pure!

I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do.

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.

Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?

Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.