Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

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 tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Every Christian needs to be informed, every Christian needs to register and every Christian should absolutely vote.

I am part of the left; I feel loyal. I don't want to do things that will be damaging to what I believe in.

But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market.