I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

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.

Consciousness blooms with the expansion of the heart.

If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.

The stakes are nary a problem to me, as I do not abide by Sir Isaac's law!

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

A lot of my wounds have healed. They have left scars, and I can either hide my scars, put a long sleeve shirt on, and cover them up. Or, I can show them off and say, "Yeah, it happened."

The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I'm out there, no one can bother me.

Look at Sammy Sosa-before he was skinny. Now he's big and he hits a lot of homers. Maybe I'll be the same.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.