When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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.

The only way to escape the feeling of loneliness is to just be silent

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)

Over the water of time I call to youIn a language I do not know.

I hate McDonald's. I don't want to order my dinner by yelling into a clown's mouth. If I want my face in a clown's mouth, I'll tongue kiss Glenn Beck.

Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again.

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.