Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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.

You are my eternal love and I am your eternal beloved. That is the truth I came to believe.

The ability to love is the divine power of human.

Give me something in between the spectrums of light, darkness and sound and most days I will create something out of it for you.

Forgiveness in no way requires you to trust the one you forgive. It doesn't mean the relationship must be restored. p. 61

The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.

A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.

That's the problem, we do get used to things.

I don't believe in delivering four times a year and then also delivering things that are not season appropriate.