Philosophy is the true mother of science.

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.

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

She knew what she was, but she wasn’t fully Unseelie. She was half human and that was the part that mattered the most.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly.

We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.

I think the blood is spilling in Syria and it's mostly Muslims.

Most of the music I've listened to or grew up listening to - a lot of it at least - is instrumental stuff.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.