Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

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 reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.

I'm a clean freak and a germaphobe - I have hand sanitizer in my pocket.

There are no dumb male questions. There are dumb males, but not dumb male questions.

I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was more likely to be a champion.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

If you really want to get in shape, you can't have those days where you feel weak.

The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.

With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'