Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

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.

Perfection is a goal that will forever remain impossible for any human being to achieve. Therefore, the only achievable goal is to only strive to become the best that you can possibly be.

To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.

My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.

I'm not a natural born performer.

Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.

Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.

Reading is important.

If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.