Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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.

My words always get me into troubles. And if not my words, it is my facial expressions.

When we think, we hurt. When we feel, we heal.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

what is most personal is most universal

All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer.