So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.

Threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back, A name in your recollection, down among a million same." - A Perfect Circle.

How beautiful it is to learn that Grace isn't fragile, and that in the family of God we can fail and not be a failure.

Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.

Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.

My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.

I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.