Frugality includes all the other virtues.

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.

Setbacks allow us to take a step back and look at the view from a whole.

Print, it transpired, was not just an instrument of agitation and change: now it was equally necessary to win the peace.

Life is a movie. You are the director in it. The choices you make, are the things that you will see. After you make a choice, there will be no going back, only simple things that will erase it.

Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.

The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.

You find out what's in you when it comes out

When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over.

I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.

Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?

If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.