The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

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.

The biggest regret a few years down the line would be…I wish I could. So dare to do what you dream of…NOW.

Think different does not mean to think out of the box. It means to question what the significance of a box is?

So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.

There's still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark.

Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.

I never thought I would ever say this . . . but I'm wearing flats today.

I'm chaos, I've always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos.

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.