Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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.

Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose.

This was the threshold to the place of the dead.

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

I think most people would be surprised at the length of the day whilst you're campaigning and then the variety of things that you do and you're asked to do.

Never speak words that allow the enemy to think he's winning.

(J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.

Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.