When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

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.

What you love too violently finishes by killing you.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.

There are seven primary chakras located in the subtle physical body, the body of light and energy that is our awareness and that surrounds the physical.

The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?

You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

As I was going up the stair I met a man who wan't there He wasn't there again today Oh I wish he'd go away!