It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

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.

When the world seems against you then your own confident and willpower will lead you till you reach your goal..

My king, I do not know all things but I do know that we mortals cannot orchestrate for the gods what they have agreed to accomplish.

What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!

Go forth and let the magic happen.

Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

Use the power of your conscious & subconscious mind to create a vibrational match for the abundance you desire and deserve.

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.

I don't know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring 'em back, I'd get shocked.