It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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.

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.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

Get thee behind me Satan.

It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics and dissenters as cranks.

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

Don't let anybody take your manhood.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.