Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

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.

We never truly "get over" a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.

Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

I'm not hurt. I'm pissed off and sexually frustrated.

I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

I do think film can change culture, in a way that reading a story in the New York Times does not.

It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

In order for me to achieve... I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.

Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.