The wise man never loses his temper.

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.

If we love each other without creating a race war, people wouldn't get hurt that much, and feelings too.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

I've always been more visual-based. I've kept my musical tendencies kind of in the closet.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

You get to the point where you decide that you don't want to be a victim anymore and that you're not going to live your life like that.

We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.