There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

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.

Too much war, hatred and fear in the world.Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.

As the sun knows

In a moment everything could suddenly change, but God and His promises remain the same.

Fill your life with love and you will be healthy, young, beautiful and full of energy and strength.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

TOMS is no longer a shoe company... we're a one-for-one company.

Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.