It is better to receive than to do injury.

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 didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

You are not alone if you are lonely, When you feel afraid, you're not the only.

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.

Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.

We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.

What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?