We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

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.

Trust unites, fear divides, mercy heals, and love conquers.

It's not your job to like me, it's mine

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

Sometimes by not knowing the truth we make incorrect judgments about situations

Old Glory in her majesty has so many promises in her wave that we have no choice but to keeping pledging and waving right back!

I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.

One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time