We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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 know home isn’t really about what color your couch is or what you hang on the wall... Home is about knowing you are in the right place with the right people.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

A number of U.S. colleges are going to start having dorms for alcoholics. I believe those are called dorms.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.

We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.