Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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.

Capture your youth, while you can.

Comedy writers don't join fraternities.''Don't pigeon hole me, Georgie, I'm infinite.

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

I don't want to sound arrogant, but the defense might shut me down on one or two out of five plays, but I'll make them pay eventually.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg