...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

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.

War is a pleasant name of Mass Murder

Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made.

Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.

Earth shall be fair, and all her folk be one!

Gun pop off like the mouth of Ann Coulter.

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

Trust your creativity.

It doesn't matter if you're play-pretending crying or play-pretending laughing, you're still play-pretending.

I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.

There is no need to seek truth, only stop having views.