Genius is fostered by industry.

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.

A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.

If I don't eat right when I wake up, I die.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.

Integrity is praised, and starves.

If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

Nashville, man. That's the place to be.