In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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.

Always put people first, for without them, there is no organization

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.

the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.

Feminists believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as a whole. That’s not a concept you can really shoot down.

In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.