An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

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.

Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids.

Every little detail to every little movement must be perfect. Perfection in movement.

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.

I've been watching Messi for some time now, and his ability to decide games and keep possession of the ball is amazing.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?

Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.