Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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.

You are a VIP, a very important person so take care with self care. If not you, who? If not now, when?

Accept things inf life and then start fighting. It is like knowing the armory skills of your opponent before beginning the battle.

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

What is needed to attain happiness is not a comfortable life, but a heart in love, such as Christ's.

Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

I'm not a Hollywood party guy.

Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.