Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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.

Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.

Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.

I stopped living a long time ago, in order to simply exist. Now I am trying to leave existence, in order to step into nihility.

He will give the devil his due.

Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!

I'm not going to be sitting on a stool with an acoustic guitar singing about my troubles anytime soon. I mean, I'm going to sing about my troubles but in an aggressive way. In my own way.

The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.