Justice renders to every one his due.

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.

Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second.Sonea: I love you too.

a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.

Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her.

I wish it was that easy to get turned on for me - at this point, I need a bottle of Belevere and a fighterjet.

I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.

The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to walk through fear and come out scorched but still breathing.

The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.

Be humble and grateful for what you have and the universe will reward your gratitude.

On a park bench on 12th street, my whole crew's famous, you try bust your gat and keep it rel but you nameless

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.