Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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.

They don’t have classes on bravery in middle school. If they did I’d have signed up. It would have been helpful to learn how to stare down what I feared most and not blink.

No greater place to be than in a leadership position to lead young minds to prosperity

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

Sometimes you've got to make your work and workouts co-exist.

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.