Life without learning is death.

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.

The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens... Basically and profoundly, we are with the West.

Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?

Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden

I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

Art is 110 percent sweat.

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.