The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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.

there isn't enough of anythingas long as we live. But at intervalsa sweetness appears and, given a chanceprevails.

Love doesn't measure that way... you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.

A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.

I planted the seed, now you must work a lot otherwise the tiny plant will die.

Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.

I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

Do what I will never do.