Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

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.

You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beautiful.

I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms.

Anyone who takes the risk of leaving God for a while, risks his life in eternity.

Millions of pages cloaked in dust and inspiration and wisdom.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots