Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

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.

Outer gavels can't crush you when your inner judge is love.

But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

One lives in the very present moment

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

If young kids choose to have me as a role model...what I put out there is that it's not a perfect life and it's okay to make mistakes.

When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag

The girls go to the gang in order to get protection from victimization that's occurring in their lives. And also it's a place to be, because they're often rejected from and rejecting their families.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.