Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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.

Everywhere I go, your beauty spills into my day. The trees were never this verdant. The birdsong never this sweet.

It is easy for anybody to call himself or herself a “Christian” but the truth is we respond from very different world-views.

Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not.

It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I want to sing. Can't do it though.

Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them.

I want to represent the street, not in a negative sense, but in the sense that when I was growing up, that's what I grew up on.

Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.