What is permissible is not always honorable.

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.

Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?

If you keep going with a definite purpose, you will find the way and reach the destination.

Find a need and fill it.

Don't try to help people to 'not die', help them to enjoy life!

Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me.