Before beginning, prepare 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.

You only have one chance for a first impression.

To live in harmony is to give in harmonyTilburg, December 6, 1972May 2053Religion of Blue Circle Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansBabajiMichael Andreas Helmuth EndeSeptember 5, 2016

Evil flourishes because the good aren't good enough, " see murmured. "And sometimes the good just have bad days.

Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.

One must make one's own mistakes

One of the things that writers worry about is finding a voice. I don't think it's a thing that you find so much as it is something that comes to you, or that presents itself.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.

I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep.