History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

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.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

Even God has a need

When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules.

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.

The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

As fleeting commitments, diets often fail. Thinking of dietary choices as part of who you are...can give them real staying power

Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.