No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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.

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

Wish I could be a fragile piece of glass to accept my brokenness.

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't.

There's nothing more dangerous than a place that doesn't exist.

I firmly believe that none of us in this world have made it until the least among us have made it.

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.