The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

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 is better to learn late than never.

The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"

When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.

Law has at least two roles: one is to define and regulate the limits of acceptable behavior. The other is to teach principles for individuals to make individual choices.

I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

Terrorism is in many, many ways the final utterance of voices unheard.

My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failure

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.