Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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.

If you're going down the wrong path, speeding up isn't going to help.

Cannibals are devouring senators.

I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know.

I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

Give Him your mess and let it become your message.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle.