Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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.

Addressing the concept of man made additions to the faith - “These additions-standards, practices, and allegiances supposedly created for our spiritual benefit-have had the opposite effect.

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy.

The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.

Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy.

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

A regret I have was never being able to interview George Harrison. I just loved him but I never had a chance to interview him.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

I am a financial planner, not a psychiatrist, but I do know that your net worth will rise to meet your self-worth only if your self-worth rises to accept what can be yours.