It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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.

Prayer beautifies you

People are kinder to the unborn than they are to the women themselves, and soon I had my ticket.

I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. “I thought if I had a party, you would come.

Giving freely is sharing freely.

I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

The question is not why good people have trials, but how shall good people respond when they are tried?

the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.