Nothing quite new is perfect.

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.

My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.

God is going to lift you up higher, day by day and from prayer to prayer.

Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.

Some people don't care if they live or they die.Some people want to know what it feels like to fly.They gather their courage and they give it a tryAnd fall under the wheels of time going by.

You don’t always have to take it all on, either, you know. The weight of the world. The responsibility for everyone else’s problems. Sometimes it’s okay to let somebody else worry about you.

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

Live... More than your neighbors. Unleash yourself upon the world and go places. Go now. Giggle no,laugh.

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.