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.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Nothing happens easily in our lives. To get something, you have to attract it with the power of your love.

Dare the impossible. By grace it will be possible.

Who we were shapes us into who we are, and who we are shapes us into who we’ll become.

To lead the people walk behind them.

The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling.

I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!

If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us

You can't become legendary if you have no energy.

Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.