The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

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 Bible is instruction for life.

The presence of Knowledge Based Trust in organizations gives rise to a high level of interpersonal trust amongst their members and creates cohesive units out of a loose bunch of people.

You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta

He scowled at Jason. "And please, I don't like being touched. Don't ever grab me again.

When a man begins to reason he ceases to feel.

Please don't stand up on my account.

Don't just make money, make a difference.

From the pain come the dream From the dream come the vision From the vision come the people From the people come the power From this power come the change.

The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails.