We make allowance for necessity.

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.

Compassion for others is a mark of wisdom.

A dream is a miracle turned inside out!

Fake news has been around as long as news has been around.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.

I think if I was in over 250 films, the world would get pretty sick of me. I would probably never get put in anything ever again.

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

I think anybody who has been in Washington for almost 40 years has been there too long.

To read without writing is to sleep.