Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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.

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.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

In life, as in knitting, don't leave loose ends. Take the time to thank the people who matter in your life.

If you have ever wanted to serve god, go on and serve him. Don't wait to be authorized by anybody. He is not copyrighted

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it.

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.

I know my debt of gratitude to the women who went before, I know my responsibility to young women coming forward.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat's prayers.

Emotion is created by motion.