Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

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.

The novice spends too much time worrying about what you get.It is all about hoarding.Things.Thoughts.Worries.Appraisals.Love.You name it .

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.

Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room.

People with big personalities are best in the center of the table. They can help carry the conversation from that place.

Let me just say that it is super wierd throwing your own bash at a conference instead of just leaching off everyone else's, but hey, free beer, right?

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.