For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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.

It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.

In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.

In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.

People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.

What is this demilitarized zone? Whatever it is, I like it! Gets you on your toes better than a strong cup of cappuccino.

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.