Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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 abundance of small things, it'll bury you.

Every individual ought to travel on his or her own destiny path.

Every great soul had great mentors.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

Today, begin to believe right by choosing to know and believe in the powerful truths of God’s Word and in His love for you.

The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.

What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.