The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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.

Would God be a frequent contact or an in case of emergency in your phone? If he is only an in case of emergency, he will you in different emergencies so he can be frequently contacted.

Be strong and courageous, along unfamiliar paths, God will guide you.

The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.

It's a wonder Hell don't open up and swallow her as the highlight of the service.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

Even last year I was watching the Celtics and I could see the offense was disheveled.

Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.