The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

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.

Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly insane every night of out lives.

I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.

This is Buffalo, New York. It's like. Scranton without the charm.

London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.