I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

If you can't do what you really want to do, then do the next best thing!

At the end of the day, if pride is your greatest strength, turn it into vanity.

The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.

I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something ... I want to get there, I want to support this.

Terrorist bombings, like rampage shootings, are events that maximize the amount of publicity per amount of damage. That's why people do them, because they know they will set off a media frenzy.

I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.