I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.

But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries?

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

If something can be said to make an awkward moment even worse, I'm going to say it.

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.