An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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.

your beauty always overpower everything that is anything less...

You can never know what it is that you have forgotten.

We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did.

Opportunity is the great bawd.

I am somewhat handicapped in doing things with my hands.

Boring' can be a lot of fun. Especially if it's on your own terms.

If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.

I don't like people cleaning my room.

Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

What makes us fully human is the relentless quest for making things a little bit better.