Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

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.

All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The difference between a saint and the greatest sinner is where they go to satisfy that hunger.

The puzzle that is created by seeing the ‘relative’ is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the ‘Real’.

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.

Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack.

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.