It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

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.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

I love, and the world is mine!

I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board.

The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list.

I never looked around me because it might freak me out, because if you're up on a mountain you don't wanna like, look down.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

Being patient ... and not becoming too stressed out over the big plays, those are the things to remember.