A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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.

It is important how people take you.

Most of us aren't equipped to handle miracles, man. I'm not sure that I am, not without being seriously stoned.

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

I have an expression I say a lot: I'm in a hurry. There's suffering on this planet that is so easy to break through if the mind is open to doing so.

Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.

I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class.

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Your net worth is not the same thing as your self-worth. Your value is not based on your valuables.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.