We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

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.

The greatest self are self-improvement, self-development and self-discovery.

Juniper: Are you guys busy? Percy: Well, we’re in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we’re trying not to die. Annabeth: We’re not busy.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Big Ben just kept building up. It ended up coming off the field. It kept taking over. Superman kept taking over Clark Kent and you just never saw who Ben Roethlisberger was any more.

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.

I'm so inspired and stimulated by the work that it doesn't ever feel like work.