All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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.

His life was gentle and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world This was a man!

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.