The popular breeze - Aura popularis

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.

One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

Give an inch he'll take an ell.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

I want a better world, I want love and harmony amongst people no matter what color you are, what race or what background you come from or sexual orientation.

It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.

One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong.

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.

You design the life you want to have.