Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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.

Although time is equally possessed by everyone, it is valued and used differently by the successful.

You only fail when you give up.

...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

Love yourself' is not 'Lust yourself.

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.