Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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.

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.

Really, UCLA's a great place as well, but they don't have the kind of environment they have here. The fans here have a passion.

We're actually just moving one type of deficit to another. But, the problem with this second type of deficit is that you drive on it and then it falls down.

I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.

I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.

I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re a problem.

I can see thru mountains watch me disappear, I can even touch the sky. Swallowing the colors of the sounds I hear, am I just a crazy guy? You bet.

Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.