Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

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.

Hope is for people who can't see the Truth.

People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

There is an essential goodness in Americans. They love this country.

When love is gone, there's always justice.

Why would I be embarrassed about being Canadian? I'm very proud. We're just the nicest people. Everyone likes us.

Those who turn proud when their praise is sounded, who seek their own glory, not Christ's, or those who are moved by slanders and by infamy, had better leave the ministry of the Word.

I like to play good girls more because I play bad ones all the time!