Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

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.

A meeting of the hearts of two Gemini has been known to end with explosive results, Mr Holloway.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will.

Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.

I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.