What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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.

I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.

Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.

The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex.

At the Cardiff World Cup I really would like to make the final. The favorites are still Peter, Daniele or Vavra, but I will try to do my best in order to be closest as possible to these athletes.

I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.

One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.