If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.

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.

Life has been full of evil, and if you don't start asking the right questions, the evil is going to be the end of you.

I would kiss the ground where your shadow fell just to be near you.

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing American jobs anymore, he's branching out to other countries.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.

Never argue, repeat your assertion.

We weren't too stressed out, this morning we just knew that if we had strong, good swims we would be fine, so it was actually a lot of fun.