The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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.

They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.

With media, it's never bad-to-good. It's always just moving from different to different. Faster, more stuff, but there's always good, more good, and more bad.

It's not that hard to climb a pole. All you need are powerful thighs and an empty soul.

It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.

Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand.

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.