O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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.

If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess.

Lies are in the minds, but the truth is in the soul

The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

To understand and be understood is to be free.

I can tell you there are rewards that go far beyond money and public acclaim and awards.

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.