We are not born for ourselves alone.

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.

Your mind believes what you tell it, so tell it positive things

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

No shade no shine no butterflies no bees No fruits no flowers no leaves no birds November!

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the right values.

Don't let fear of failure discourage you. Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you - whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.

I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism.