A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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.

Keep trying?I'd rather keep walking. I mean, whisky is whisky

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.

It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

If you're very clearly good or you're very clearly bad, then there isn't that much internal dilemma going on, and that's not necessarily as interesting to play.

Yes, I am very prolific.

Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.