O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!

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.

The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go downTo the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself.

A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.

Life is too meaningful to die.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

We need a president who is focused on defeating every single ISIS terrorist and protecting the homeland, which should be the first priority.

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.