I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

Every thought precedes an action.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.

Providing reserves and exchanges for the whole world is too much for one country and one currency to bear.

Kentucky Fried Chicken.. KFC... Keep Fooling Customers.

As long as people allow themselves to be shocked, outraged or disgusted, there will be those who see that this happens, just so they can watch.