O philosophy, you leader of life.

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.

The sacred being speaks at a sacred time.

I recommend getting yourself out from under any ministry that PREACHES LAW or a MIXTURE OF LAW AND GRACE, and instead listening to or reading anything you can find to reinforce the GRACE MESSAGE.

As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.

I've always been freaked out in my mind performing.

Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

I don't know how to write a children's book.

While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.