Hatred is a settled anger.

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.

Passion, patient, perseverance and persistent are four keys to great achievements.

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are many, many other things to be considered.

It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?

I have being saved by the grace of God.I am a child of God.The Lord's great favour and mighty power is upon me.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

Successful stocks don't tell you when to sell. When you feel like bragging, it's probably time to sell.

Aquarius[es] are social butterflies, humanitarians, geniuses: Einstein was one.

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.