He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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.

you wanted it all to make senseand you wanted the most complicated answer, but the answer is simple.just be.

Be wise enough to forgive

Pretty great view. You think they’d do something about the sharks.

Remember that our desires will not arrive by our schedule. If you really want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

The night has given me dark eyes But I use them to look for light.

When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.