As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most 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.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.

Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord -- and shotgun do your stuff

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

Your spirit is the true shield.

The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.