You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

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.

If you have to criticize, do it with deep understanding and love.

Streets flooded. Please advise.

Break your bad labels instead of living in them.

In the depth of cold, warm magnetizing feelings, Listen to the sound of love in a happening hug, In deep connection of being human, in an innocent expression.

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

I sold my soul to the devil in L.A

There's a thrill in going someplace you aren't supposed to go. The place should come down.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.