I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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.

Positive thinking will ultimately enable you to live a positive life. So think positively.

Fresh wounds, in later years, often make interesting scars.

Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

It is good to dream! After I dream, I envision, and after I envision, I create!

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.