If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

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.

Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

I write music every day.

I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'