The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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.

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

War. War never changes.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.

A heart never breaks in the same pattern of pieces

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

When you change yourself to win someone's heart, you better be prepared to accept that this will now be your way of life forever.

For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M.

It is not a problem. I had been nominated by my country Uganda and the African continent had endorsed me... No matter how much noise the frogs make, they cannot stop a cow from drinking water.