A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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.

Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try.

The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast. And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches toss'd.

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.

I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.

My father believed in me many times more than I believed in myself.

in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.

You could say I'm a bit of a nomad.

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

I've seen looks before that have literally taken my breath away - like someone on the red carpet and it's just like I can't even breathe, like you get some type of amazing anxiety.