All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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.

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.

The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.

So many people pass up older dogs, which is a shame. With an older dog, you know what you are getting.

Which new wrestlers do I think will be the franchise wrestlers? Erm, well Batista and Randy Orton will I think, for sure.

You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.

I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.

I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.