Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

...the longer she had lived away, the more she realized that nowhere became home… though everywhere had.

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

One race, Many cultures, One place.

They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be."--"Mr. Z

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

If we don't build our Spiritual Core our world is going to collapse.

If I look back to when I was 20 and somebody said you'd be president, I would have said no way.

Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.

To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.