There is no life without friendship

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.

Men and women…they are interested in each others bodies first. Other things come later.

I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn't really exist.

The same thought resonates.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

Forgive me if I don't shake hands.

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

We rarely wrestle with apology and lose.

The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.

Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.