What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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.

My own love was never mine and now I don't even have a dream of loving again.

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.

We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".

I'm proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it's a sign that it's time to leave. For now though, I'm happy here at the greatest club in the world.

All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self.

You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.