It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility 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.

Science is beautiful because of its endless curiosity.

You know, I have never met a young man who recognises the true value in this exercise, and yet I have met hundreds of old men who wished someone had shared it with them in their youth.

LSD stands out for learning to slow down.

Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

Shaken and not stirred.

I don't think of myself as a writer.

As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.