History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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.

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

When you change yourself, you inspire others, and this inspiration changes the world.

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

Practice is not a matter of years and months. It is a matter of concentration.

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday

When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.