This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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.

Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

There are two kinds of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists.

Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.

How do you beat Obama? Beat him with a Cain!

In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

God is able to do more than man can understand.