Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

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.

Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.

He was one of those characters who felt that a weak handshake could somehow damage his authority, which meant that every handshake had to bloody hurt.

Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.

I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.

On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs.

Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense of purpose and pleasure in your life.

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside.

Greatness is not how you feel, it's how you make others feel.

It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused.