Thrift is a great revenue.

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.

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.

There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.

There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.

I'm bi-lots of things but lingual isn't one of them. Wait, did I mean to say that?