He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

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.

Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

Donald [Trump], you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. That's not going to happen.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination

The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.

It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, regular guy.