Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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.

Be the same person- with or without money.

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

I always say to my students, if you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.

But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

I don't ever want to take a part in order to prove that I'm capable of doing something. It's all based in doing stuff that's interesting or working with people who would be fun to work with.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.