Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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.

Your life is a book. Everyone could read it.

I find out in a relationship each person should support each other

Why do we come to the world, only to suffer and depart? This is a unsolved misery.

Excuses fall silent behind self-control, focus, and direction.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit.

So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.

Vampire fad just won't die. Makes sense, I guess.

Streams and mountains never stay the same.

I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!