Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

If your anger is the result of your sadness or if your sadness is result of your anger, you are undoubtedly suffering from disorientation.

The poor commit villainies because they are poor or because they have no alternative employment. But the rich do them in order to enjoy themselves more or to earn more money.

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.

It's a terrific book and I can't wait for the movie, " says Phillip Adams on Late Night Live, ABC Radio National.

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

I want to make sure that we make America more competitive. And that we do those things that make America the most attractive place in the world for entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses to grow.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

You're never too old to grow up.