Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.

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.

Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a poor background than a rich one.

If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.

When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.

The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.

How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?

Giving. What flows away from you flows back magnified: Become a joyful giver.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.