Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

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.

FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying

Dating in England is different. First of all because English people don’t like at all other people knowing them, and second, because English people are romantically impaired.

Use vitamins in place of drugs. This takes some moxie to do, for we have been taught to be consumers of medicine. We have been taught that anything cheap and safe cannot possibly be effective.

I tell people: if it's in the news, don't worry about it, because by definition, news is something that almost never happens.

My biggest problem is retaining the exact information.

Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It's all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We just make the choices in terms of what situations we're going to eat.

Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory

Or for the gorgeously bare vampire to give her a sensual massage while feeding her peeled grapes.

... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.