This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

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.

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand--too damning.

Morgan Freeman is a very giving actor.

I am literally obsessed with Lena Dunham. She's, like, my favorite person in the world. I follow her on Twitter; I read her every day.

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.

The song is about love, life, fear and hope... and more than anything, you... and me...

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

I don't actually watch many shows. I will either watch movies or football. I enjoy to watch games in the Premier League and will also watch movies a lot as well. That is how I relax.