I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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 be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

I personally am not conscious of my accent.

Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?

Feel the Fear. Do it anyway!

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.

Charity is not an act but a way of life, a condition of the heart.

Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !