There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

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.

Too much has been given and too much has been lost.

I care about you," Simon said. "I always cared about you.

The sun in your eyes makes some of the lies worth believing.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother.

Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

There's no such thing as equality. No two people are the same. You will not have the same clothes.

On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)