If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability.

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.

Sometimes", said Miss Phillips, "the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

Do things to make your day precious.

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

I've got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now.

Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we go to bed.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.