The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

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.

Liberation happens each time we become conscious of the contents of the soul.

You carry the image of God in you

Do good. That’s all any of us can do.

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Maybe don't make it so.

A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.

I bow in reverence to the white cloud.

Christmas dresser feeling pleasure

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.