Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

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.

Love is that indefinable moment of brokenheartedness when you cry and someone weeps with your tears

Memory is the coherence of life, that possesses all your emotions, and ambitions. Without it, your joyous as well as agonizing experiences of life won’t have any significance to you whatsoever.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I could finance comics myself, I lasted only a little reading superheroes.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

...Other countries are way ahead of ours in nutrition.

My toughest enemy is in the mirror - would you look at that.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.