If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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.

Christmas teaches us to be loving, kind, giving, forgiving, and appreciating.

He had an overwhelming urge to take possession of her lips, silencing any mention of another man’s name.

Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.