Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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.

We can do anything you like. Just be with me.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.

God does not hide the mistakes of His heroes

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.

Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

All the particles of the World are in Love and looking for Lovers.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.