He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

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.

Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Playing frisbee with a five year old is amazingly similar to chasing after a frisbee.

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

To do high fashion, you have to go into a little bit of a higher price point.

Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.

All of us from The Waltons still love each other. I think were closer than some real families.

My creativity comes from an unhoned place, if 'unhoned' is a word.

[My mother] was the one who encouraged me constantly and always reminded me that God gave me a talent and I have to use it. I should not keep it locked inside.