We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

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.

Ego is like a mad elephant which is ridden by our blind heart and blind mind and which ultimately destroys our real selves

Life is spiritual.

Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon.

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.

Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Once the government runs out of foreign and private sector bidders for new Treasurys, the Federal Reserve will be the only buyer, and the hyper-inflation cat will be completely out of the bag.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.