No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

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 eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

I'm tired of dealing with the crazies.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

In the event of a cabin failure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling, and untangling them will annoy you before you die.

But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for some it's torture, for some it's peace. For some it's everything.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.