Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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.

A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood.

They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold.

We have forged the type of bonds that only battle brings.

Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.

'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!

I don’t just kiss people. Kisses aren’t... just with me.