In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

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.

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

When I’d confronted him, he’d left me and, like a parasite finding a fresh host, moved in with her.

Jesus was born with the cross darkening His pathway . . . From the cradle to the cross, [Jesus’] purpose was to die.

Trust is important in any relationship, not just a romantic one.

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book.

Look what you created, only got yourself to blame, I remember when you hated

A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...