The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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.

Not only was it impossible to truly belong in America, but he didn't fit in here anymore either. He was a dweller of two lands, accepted by none.

The mine owners do not find the gold.

I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.

Method is the arithmetic of success.

I don't have a lot of discipline.

The only power an actor has is the ability to say "no."

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.