Oh what times! Oh what standards!

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.

I put a lot of pressure on myself, but I also have what I call an X-factor.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I've seen is so bad.

You can’t coach guts and commitment.

Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

When Chuck Norris stands in front of a mirror it shatters because the mirror knows never to stand between CHUCK NORRIS and CHUCK NORRIS.

The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.