Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

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.

It’s not right that some people have so much and others have so little.

Will you show me what you really look like? You don't sparkle, do you?

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

We all will be Christed when we hear ourselves say: We are that to which we pray

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

I think there comes a time in any comedian's career where they can either coast or keep growing and evolving.

When you take the bull by the horns...what happens is a toss-up.