To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

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.

You are loaded with answers

A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

Change holds danger, but also the potential for something new ~ and better ~ to be born.

I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times.

It sacrifices people's lives and their essences at the drop of a dimeI had a manager once say to me, You know you're worth more money dead than alive.

It's a beautiful life, just as advertised.

I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

I haven’t even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.

Don't be afraid to have nothing.