Dogs wait for us faithfully.

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.

Starting strong is impressive but ending strong is legendary.

There is a constant conflict between What you're and What I think YOU ARE!

We challenge our kids to be close around the 2:00 mark. If we can do that we can win games.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

Some women and men seem to need each other.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

I just hugged the man that murdered my son.