What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Barba non facit philosophum

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

No man should go to Valhalla with brothel rash.

All I did was offer to kill your dog, and the next thing I know I’m being judged.

We don't have to seek new economic systems. We have to transform the people who run them.

There it was, happiness in a backward glance: happiness and the certainty of hope.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

I have a lot of respect and admiration for someone like Cate Blanchett, find Emma Thompson wonderful, Meryl Streep inspiring, Juliette Binoche full of light and Catherine Deneuve incredible.

”Ariel Sharon is a man of courage and a man of peace.”

I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong.

My favorite fighter is Anderson Silva.

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?