No man in his senses will dance.

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.

Every thought is a creative energy that moves the universe to action.

Any moment which is not captured is loss in the events of time.

I love modeling because I get to see everything that inspires me. Then I go home and sketch.

It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity.

A budding writer wants to be encouraged.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.

The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The ten thousand things offer no offence.