The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

I will be forever grateful and forever in your debt. There is no greater deed or favor one man can do for another than to save his life. So grazi. Molto grazi, mi amico.

I'm so deeply in love with you it's hard to fathom. No words could provide quantifiable resonance or measure.

The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost

I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.