It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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.

I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order.

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.

I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service.

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

It's important to have a life outside the band.

If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.

Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.