The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

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.

Everlasting light, everlasting glory.

It is injustice to determine the brutality of an action because of the victim or the criminal.

If your success is as a result of a trail of tears & hurt you left in anothers life, Karmas' watching.

Workaholics commit slow suicide by refusing to allow the child inside them to play.

O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

Instead of talking yourself out of your future start talking yourself into it.

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

I'm confident and I trust my instincts.