There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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.

The more you learn, the more you know, you don’t know enough.

I overcome the fear of losing.I overcome the fear of changing.I let go of what is going.I allow what is coming.

One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.