Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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.

Those who serve others have purpose. Those who serve themselves are lost.

One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.

To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"

I think President Obama is going to be a one-term president.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.

What we do every day - whether you live in Mexico, the United States, Russia, China can have a very negative impact on an entire way of life for an entire people far away from that source