To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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.

Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming to have what you have.

Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume.

For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new.

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.

I seek out parts which are strong women. It's not the quantity of a role; it's the quality of a role.

It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.