If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

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.

If you fish without proper bait, you will only catch disappointment.

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.

Every man has a wild beast within him.

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

I don't think men should think too much about their hair. They shouldn't think. They should just open bottles for women, hammer nails into wall and chop wood.

There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end.

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

We need to play each others instruments.

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.