It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

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.

When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

If you can hold back, judge people and differentiate between right and wrong you are not in love.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.

You don't feel like a winner and then do; you do like a winner and then feel.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

With America's role in the world, we have the ability to help protect the freedom of religion around the globe.