I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, " he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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 must work together on a common vision and a common goal.

If you do not get to her time...............He will cut out her heart & feed it to the fishes...." Alice

people talking about you doesn't matter when you are in coffin, its only matter to you when you a alive to hear them.

Turning your back on nothing and walking away is not disloyal, it's self respect.

It may be broadly stated that.....of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall be absolutely hopeless.

The first rule of improv is 'Never say no.' Use it when co-writing. To co-write, you need to be willing to be vulnerable with each other. You need to be stupid with each other.

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

What is life if not a gamble?

Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.