The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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 is no such thing as chance. Everything occurs as a result of cause and effect

This land needed a sword forged in the hottest of fires to regain what was lost...and you are that sword.

A new grace for a new life is what we need in the coming year.

You are loved by your maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your father.

It was a miserable thing, to be responsible for breaking your own heart.

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

God not only allowed for joyful worship but also commanded it.

Science advances one funeral at a time.