If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Let's gather the world in a game of love with the goal of kicking our tears past Eternity & she'll kick the earth into humanity.

When did you get that?""The shirt? At Macy's. Winter sale.

Some people are wonderful, some wonderless.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.