Honor is the reward of virtue.

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.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Losing your virginity is a lot like when you find out that Santa doesn’t exist… First you’re slightly disappointed, and then you’re happy because you’re in on the secret

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.

What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified.