Probability is the very guide of life.

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.

Only the legs that run are those that really have muscles!

Some commit slow suicide with the sweet poison of their memories.

I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard—I must keep armed.

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

I won't buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me

Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.

Prince William and Kate Middleton are in New York City. We have got to do something about immigration.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.