No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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.

Kalau nanti aku tidak asik lagi. Tidak menyenangkan lagi. Ingatkan aku tentang hal-hal yang pernah membuatmu bersikeras mempertahankanku.

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

Marriage . . . is not a love affair

A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now.

There are atheists, and I love them. In fact, I died for them.

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow