Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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.

And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

Everything is light, everything is warmth, everything is electricity, everything is a magnetic field, everything is you.

Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better.

Consult your memory to know what matters most in your life.

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals.

But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.