Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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.

Calligraphy of geeseagainst the sky-the moon seals it.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love.

I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

I think that's the way to go - dive into the music and don't think, stay frozen, why don't we all stay frozen in time for awhile?

I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly." ~Harry Dresden