He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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.

Success is yours if you are willing to pursue it to the ends of the earth.

Silena, take the Aphrodite crew to the Queens-Midtown Tu

People should tell their children what life is all about-it's about work.

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.

Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.

I grew up listening to English music.

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.