Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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.

Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom.

You've got to have, like, a lentil for a soul to hate wiener dogs.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.

Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, He began to exist at a moment in time.

The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.