A community is like the ones who govern it.

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.

God loves man and that’s why He is merciful and good to him

We all need daily encouragement.

Don’t depend on others tofuel your self-belief.Develop your self-belief so thatit becomes self-sustaining.

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.

The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal.

I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

Everything you want in life has teeth.

Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.