Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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.

Never pay attention to the distractions in life. Focus on possibilities.

I work out. I used to go to yoga every day. Now I just incorporate yoga into my warm-up and my cool down. I drink a lot of water, and I go to therapy.

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

Always take one last look in a full-length mirror before leaving the house.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.