Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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.

Crowd is just a bunch of heads, it is their leader who is the mind.

If we feed our spiritual lives and allow the Holy Spirit to empower us, He will have rule over us. If we starve our spiritual natures and instead feed the old, sinful nature, the flesh will dominate.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.-Bono

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes

This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.

An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes.