No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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.

Under the stars, I tried to sleep, but for once in my life couldn't.My mutant super power-the ability to nod off at at the drop of a hat, any time, anywhere-had deserted me.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring. But I did very well.

I don't think the tennis tour is the place to have friends

My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder and awe at this phenomenal world around us.

And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.

The dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the reality of tomorrow.

It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.