A home without books is a body without soul.

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.

Wow. This has been such a scorching series. Two hawt alpha males. One southern Texan. A recipe for lot of entertainment. - Jamie Leigh

It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.

God never uses a person greatly until He has wounded him deeply. The privilege He offers you is greater than the price you have to pay. The privilege is greater than the price.

The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you.

What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.

Hitler really ruined that mustache for everybody. It’s really an interesting mustache, but now, no one can wear it.

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

The way to write well is to live intensely.