The real friend is another self.

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.

I've spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that's gotten me. I'm at the finish line but I never ran the race.

The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.

Words are where most change begins.

If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably be a caddie today.

Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

I die in sleep, and sleep is death and death is unknown, and unknown is God.

Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'

If you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.