There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

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.

I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

The future was always before you. That was kind of the point of the future.

The quest for knowledge shouldn't stop at the highest level of school education. It is a never-ending process.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.

I liked women as a shape to dress.

Share your strengths, not your weaknesses.

You're 60 But honestly it doesn't show Mind you, you reached the age of consent About 50,000 consents ago!

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.