Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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.

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

People are never going to act exactly like we want them to. So if we stop expecting things from others, we’ll find peace in our hearts that will last a lifetime.

In order to create a positive life, you have to have a positive vision and take creative actions.

Innovations are the magnificent elevators of a transformational life.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work.