The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. (1804)

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.

Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

I know when things are good or bad.

I just love music generally. If you come to my house I always have music playing.

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if youre a theater actor its very difficult to make a living. But its also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

I find China such a fascinating and interesting country. Each time I come back something has changed and it's moved on in leaps and bounds.

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

I want to hit the ball and I want to get at-bats. The results really dont matter to me.