The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

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.

Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

Keep God first. If you do that, if you just focus on God and keeping Him first, then everything else will just take care of itself. Do everything for Him.

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

The more things you do, the more things you can do.

Love will not just heal your life or mine. Love will heal the world.

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?