They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

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.

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

I was completely and irrevocably in lust

Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said.

He expects us to kill him," Palomides said to Dinadan. "Some people are so demanding," Dinadan replied. "Considering we've only just met, I mean.

I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.

Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.

We're all dancing in the darkness.

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.