Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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.

Life is like a B-picture script.

The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!

The group Bananarama has such a light, cutesy-pie sound that they make The Go-Go's sound like Led Zeppelin by comparison.

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I’m feeling.

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able to work with the directors I've worked with if I did those studio films.

It's important to take criticism seriously - not personally.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.

If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.

Opportunities energize the faithful and paralyze the fearful.