Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

If you don't accept and respect your suffering, it isn't going anywhere.

She's a skilled and swift fight, and I know she'll pass on her training on to you.

Patience has never been my strong suit.

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.