In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

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.

One who seeks to control others is one who suffers from the affliction of fear.

It's all a waste of time. Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

Want to be a better leader? Meditate in the morning and prepare yourself for the day ahead.

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.