A man has no enemy worse than himself.

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.

If you will use your fingers to count your own mistakes, you won't have time to finger others.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end.

Once you figure out what your own thing is it's all about trying to develop shows, programs that can, I guess, enhance what you already have and what you can add to Hollywood.

A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?

I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.

That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.

I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something.