Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

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.

Why be crying, fearful, lonely, when you have the whole universe? Be still, listen to your heart, breathe, and know you need nothing.

The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger.

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.

Football is my guilty pleasure.

The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.