Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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.

To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.

Putting forth the effort to succeed is (tan.ta.mount), tantamount to your success.

Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

Nobody can make me cry in public. I'll punch them first before they make my mascara smear.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.