For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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.

I can't prevent storms from coming, but I can decide not to invent my own.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

Sharing money is what gives it its value.

One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.

Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

I made 'Going Greek', which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

My one ambition is to play a hero.