Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of 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.

It's time to change... it's time to start working on yourself.... improve yourself.... you don't have time for excuses.

She fell down fifty-five floors. It took 10.6 seconds for her to hit the ground. It took my father forty-eight hours to come back home from his business trip in Sweden.

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

Darkness will never take me... because I have you. Light of my life, Marissa. That's what you are." -Butch and Marissa

There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.

There's no coherent stylistic genre specific advice that I could provide.

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.