What times! What manners!

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.

I will find you.In the farthest corner, I will find you.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms.

Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears

I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.

Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

I'm not shooting every day of the week, which allows me to fly home to be with my kids for the weekends. That's how I keep it moving.

Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it.