Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

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.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

Learn from the best, so one day you can become the best.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness you have good manners no matter what fork you use.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.

In music, silence is more important than sound.

I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our local community rights globally. We shall continue to do so.

When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else.