Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

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.

A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.

Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to "be" rather than being in a constant state of want.

I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.

Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile.

I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.