Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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.

For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet.

My goal has been willing to kiss my feet.

I'll never forgive myself for putting you in danger, allowing you to get hurt.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

Anybody that walks can sing.

I usually play disenfranchised youth

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.