Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

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.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

I really do like Bruno Mars. I think he's very good. And I love Maroon 5.

Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

If we do not create inner peace, outer peace is not possible.

A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction.

I promise everyone who comes to Ukraine can see a beautiful country.