Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

Every year, we have 365 chances to begin a new lifetime.

What God has asked you to do is not just difficult, it is impossible. He is well able!

I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.

I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

Our body is a small universe; to regulate emotions and feelings is a way of harmonization.