It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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 is a misery, without music.

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

If he came back in and ventured just a step too close to me, I would do it. I had been tempered in a furnace of Stickings’ making, and I had come out stronger.

A bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they taste sweeter.

Goal begins with "GO."

I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties.

Everyone has Love towards some thing or other, and that Love is a spark of the Divine; everyone has ultimately to base his life on some one Truth; that Truth is God.