To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

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.

There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him and then broke the mould.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

You don't have to worry about the guy that threatens to beat you up. Worry about the guy that shows up on your doorstep, looking for a fight.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will give you that.

Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.