There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.

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.

In the bigger scheme of things, we are two pawns... waiting for life to make its move.#Fatalist

XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense.

The life of a vampire begins with the first bite.

It's great to be able to pretend you're tough but funny at the same time.

See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

Music has always been a huge part of my life.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock

I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.