It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

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.

Life was given to be lived for God and people

Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.

Lovers are easy to find and easy to forget but finding an authentic connection is exceptional and limited. It rarely happens, which is why there are so many unhappy people out there.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.