It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

Life is the reflection of consciousness. Change your consciousness and your life will change.

Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.

What I accomplished definitely wasn't achieved by myself. Without others, none of this would have been possible.

Bob arum is Manny Pacquiao's boss, Floyd Mayweather is his own boss.

Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess

Did you know that today will never be tomorrow.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do

I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible — I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical.