No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

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 single scar on her soul testifies of the times when she ignored the voice of her spirit

It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.

I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss.

Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.

Whenever there is a a financial crisis, it is always the banks that get hit.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

I'm not better then anyone because of what I do, who I am and where I come from.