Laws are silent in time of war.

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.

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

It all went a bit grape-shaped.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

The noise that we can expect in the future will only increase and we'll be wishing for rural Portugal or something like that.

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

It's important to stay in this moment right here, the now. This moment is the most important moment of your life.

Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.

You have brought hope to those who have none