There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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.

Those who believe in quality produce quality goods.

If you fold the sentence sure you will see the other side but for sure you will loose the beauty of original one..

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming!

So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.' 'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.

I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.