To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

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.

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Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.

Brandy and water spoils two good things.

I always wanted to be a hairdresser.

I don't need to get paid. I just wanna open. I just wanna get in front of new people.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

When the hater's fire singes the hated, the hater has already been consumed.