Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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.

Through the whirlwind, I hear my father's harsh whi

You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

True leaders inspire people to a bigger vision.

Sometimes we don't move forward because the people who love us the most unconsciously sabotage our efforts.

You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy.

L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

If it feels right, do it. If it feels wrong, don't.

Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.