As you have sown so shall you 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.

I don't dream of a ceiling fan which is always here spinning above my head. I dream of a cool weather

There is no better designer than nature.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.

Childhood's over the moment you know you're going to die.

For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.

Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.

The quest for Love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for Love who has not matured on the way. The moment you start looking for Love, you start to change within and without.

I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.