Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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.

The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.

Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

Anne Arundel County has become the world's epicenter of military intelligence and defense-related information technology.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

Great Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. I'm not sure that's true anymore.

Your life can end in a flash before you even have time to know it’s over. There is no safe. There is no control.

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.