Before beginning, plan carefully.

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.

She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again

when you build your life on a foundation of your authentic truth ~ you are fulfilled with joy and enduring peace, you feel you, the person you are meant to be

Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little he who would achieve much must sacrifice much he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

We have to move from making good advertising, to making advertising good.

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place.

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.