Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Hands. Cheeks. Eyes. Lips.Neck. Ears.Thighs.Heart. Soul.Ahh!the things I get tosavor you with.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.

I don't like being left to my own thoughts.

He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

If you want to make something happen, you can make it happen. There's always a way if it's what you want.

A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.