Man is his own worst enemy.

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.

Pleasure and Pain participate equally in moulding character.

Possibility is not a facet of opportunity. It's one of fate. And I've never been one to fear destiny.

I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.

Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.

If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

When a horse learns to buy martinis, I'll learn to like horses.

You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.