Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

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.

I project myself to love and devote my time and attention to someone without a reason, so at least I can give someone the feelings of being the most special person in someone’s life.

I will claim her, and I will protect her, and any who become her enemy? I will destroy.

As my mother used to say: "Mimic a duck act calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like crazy underneath."

I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't?

Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.

I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?

Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain

The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.