In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

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.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

I know the police cause you troubleThey cause trouble everywhereBut when you die and go to heavenYou find no policeman there

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

We shall immunize every child in Africa to get rid of this terrible disease forever.

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.