Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

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.

Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?

We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

The main thing is just really to play my game... and while you are playing the match, as it goes along, you kind of figure things out.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

I always knew what I wanted to do and I did it.