Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]

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 had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen

Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.

If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.

Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.

People only look at me as a Beatle but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.

Every baby's first breath on Earth could be one of peace and love. Every mother should be healthy and strong. Every birth could be safe and loving. But our world is not there yet

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.