I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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.

Muhammad is the greatest man that history ever knew

In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.

Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.

If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

A lot of people say I'm like a pop girl, but I don't know what that means.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

I'm not really fond of the trails left in the sky and a lot of chemicals that are being pumped through factories and even in the clothes we wear.

I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.