God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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.

I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I think being beautiful is only one aspect of your life.

rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.

Pizza! Hockey! Destroy!" -Cal