A friend is as it were a second self.

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.

I have wished you something None of the others would....

I look just like the girl next door ... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

I would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

Sigma Chi, more than anything else, got me involved with the people who knew how to study, and they helped me. I learned from them. The Norman Shield is still quite applicable now.

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.