To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

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.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

A word and everything is saved.A word and all is lost.

Things don't just happen the way they happen for your its own Creator, Mentor and Destroyer

Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Am I, or the others crazy?

Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

I'm not overly analytical, and I don't set out to make something particularly.

Hale is what he is in the American pantheon not because of what he did, but because of why he did it.

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.