Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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.

Enjoy your youth.You'll never be younger thanyou are at this very moment.

Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life's tapestry.

Humor is an attitude. It's a way of looking at life and of telling others how you feel about what's happening around you.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

And last of all comes death.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them.