Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective.

You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster

I'm not trying to be mean, ' Casamir says.'Intent doesn't always matter.

Love is like a musical score, sometimes very tuneful, creating a harmony of sounds, sometimes extremely harsh, striking a hell of false notes. (“Love lying fallow “)

Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

An election is an opportunity for a new consensus.

I don't think there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that.