Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

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.

Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.

I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do.

Persecution may wear an insulting face. Insults may come as a result of a Christian’s lifestyle, which should be different from that of the secular world.

On wedding day you should look like yourself at your most beautiful

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

It's always good to have your fan base and to continue to do what you love to do and making a living and seeing the people and travel and do everything, it's always a great thing for me.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

To be on foot in the United States is only immoral, not illegal.

If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.