The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

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.

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.

We can get this done! Take a vote, and send me that bill.

I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.

If we're friends with someone and attracted to them, we're going to want to take it further.

Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.

I'm pretty confident.

It's very rare that you just get stuck with the ball. You're going to get somebody open.

There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.