No sane man 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.

It’s not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that’s deftly deluding mankind. It’s man himself.

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.

The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.

Don't wait until you are perfect to change the world.

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.