An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

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.

Truly listening, attentively, and with care, is one of the simplest and most kind gifts we can give anyone.

You need to set and have goals for your life.

My mother remains unmatched in quality, competent in business process, and is never contested for any faults

In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

On the Web, all advantages are temporary, and you must keep innovating to stay ahead

I've struggled with money when I could have had a little more if I'd just taken the damn job.

We do not have to be victims of circumstance.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

When I'm in this state, everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration.