By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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 knew I was really there, because I was the thing his arms encircled, the thing his love defined.

…possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.

We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.

He's my usual type of fan... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone.

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.

Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.