What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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.

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.

Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.