Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

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.

Why write wrong if the writing won’t right the wrong? (90)

Of all the people in the world who could've won the seat next to mine at that playoff game... it was you, Gemma. You. The one person on the planet who might just understand me.

Christians are viewed as being "judgmental, homophobic, moralists" who think they are the only ones going to heaven and who "secretly relish the fact that everyone else is going to hell.

Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon.

The free man is a warrior.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

Every action has a reaction. We've got one planet and one chance.

It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.