Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

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 is important to leave behind a rich and memorable legacy than just accumulated history!

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

I think the big problem is what I call "possessive monogamy." I think we should have a lot more freedom in our sexual lives. We should stop making monogamous commitments.

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

My favorite activity is to be with my family.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

You want to go to work with people you like and where everyone is having fun.

Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.