I am a Roman citizen.

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.

Action achieves ambition.

You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase