Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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.

We need to place God at the center of our family . . . As a family, we need to walk with God daily.

Most people felt lost after high school. Sometimes I felt like I'd never really been found in the first place.

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty.

I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.