There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

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.

Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.

Everyone judges, it's a human nature.

Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Remember, the answers are in the questions.

How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

I don't put a great deal of stock in art trophies.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.