Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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.

Earth is wonderful stadium to play, till you are on pitch.

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?

Nothing is ever going to describe in words what your mother looked like at twenty when the moonlight just fell on her face in such a way. Only a picture can show you that.

In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God.

The biggest thing for me is surrounding myself with good people and steering clear, far clear, of all my demons in the past.

I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.