To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

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.

Moose are the squirrels of Alaska.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.

I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

Processes don't do work, people do

I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.

I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.

The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.

Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.