A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

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.

Anger may not have been derived from the Hindi word 'angaar' meaning Fire...however coincidentally both are equally destructive.

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

The real excitement is playing the game.

On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. Unfortunately, not all humans see it that way.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.