The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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.

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE, LIES WILL PUT YOU INTO PRISON

Letter home from college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."

As a mother, the one thing that always goes through your head is, You're never enough. You never can be enough - or do enough - for your kids. It's a never-ending issue for me.

The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.

[He died of thirst?] That sounds, if I might say, like the greatest Sprite commercial ever.

Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

Faith is an action, based on a belief, supported by confidence.

I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God.