The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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.

Who are you? Where are you coming from? What are your strengths and ambitions? What makes you happy and fulfilled? What are your inherent gifts and talents? Clearly define yourself.

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

You never know what you will find in your pants!

For a Comfortable Journey of Life, Just Reduce the Luggage of Desires.

The question is not, therefore, _whether_ a theory is grand or small, or whether it is universal/global or particular/local, but _what function_ a theory plays and _whose interest_ it serves.

He gives twice who gives promptly.

As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter.

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.

You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.