Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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.

The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ's life.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.

I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.

I wish food was falling from the sky.

I have always been the type of person to want to reach a goal no matter how far-fetched it was.

I like bands for a long time, even when they're not trendy anymore. I still like Arcade Fire. I've always liked Stevie Wonder.