War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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.

Science rock: The pursuit of science, lead us to the beautiful places of the world.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

Peter," she whispered and reached out, touching his cheek. "My little Peterbird? You flew back to me.

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.

Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.