He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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.

True love is a star surrounded by stars.

My wife was saying to me just the other day how she's noticed a spring in my step lately. That was because I thought you were gone forever.' 'I missed you too, Thurid.

The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy".

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

I like movies that have strong personalities, and Michel Gondry is so creative that his films are always something special to watch.

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.

Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance