Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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.

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

I’ll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. I will not be bound by anything but my love for you.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.