To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

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.

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

I have nothing but a great head to offer.Is that enough?

I’m sorry I broke you. It’s just that you’re so pretty, and I break pretty things.

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.

The truth is that everybody has a past and everybody has an ex.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.