Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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.

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

The question is, would you rather keep your secrets or keep her?

BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

The reward that outdoes all others is the peace of knowing that you did right.

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.

Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has.