As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

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.

The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

The human body is mostly blood and mystery and sadness.

And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

Love, joy and peace for the world, that’s what I want...peace for the world and love.

We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.