When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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.

When you need motivation, look no where! Just say "YES, I CAN DO IT

Only real true friends will tell you when your face is dirty, Others will either pamper, avoid or laugh at you certainly.[227] - 4 (Thoughts)

God did not intend for us to be idle and unproductive. There is dignity in work.

It takes an aeon to shift position, get comfortable, let alonecreate a wave in this fishbowl full of glue.- from the poem 'Critical Mass

Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

Strange medical news from Pakistan: A man had a successful organ transplant with a dog. They gave the man a dog's organ. In a related story today, Keith Richards was seen chasing a mailman.

Boy, I feel more and more undeserving each moment !!

The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

I do what I love, and I love what I do. I think we all were intended out of a field of energy called love, so you must be love in order to intend.