If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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.

One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Praying leads to purity.

Learn always and wherever possible, knowing that you'll never learneverything.

I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity.

An active civil position will make you become the hero of your time.

I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.

If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.

In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.

The same one who mistreated you will end up needing you.... It is the circle of life.