True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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.

A student must be humbled to trained by teacher.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.