The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

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.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

O Lord, only you can satisfy my soul.

Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk - I just danced.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again.

I was the best man at the wedding... If I'm the best man, why is she marrying him?

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.