A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

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.

If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.

Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast as in California, and in none of them, perhaps, are the evil effects so manifest.

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.