Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.

The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.

When you move like a jellyfish, rhythm is nothing. You go with the flow. You don't stop.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.

Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre.

Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.

Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers