Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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.

Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.

Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you--your relationship with God.

Everything comes from the great book of nature.

So the CD is a great way to get yourself acquainted with some people who in three years, maybe even one year, be really big.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

We live thinking we will never die, We die thinking we have never lived

What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.

I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.

There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say.