No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

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.

And yet their reward appear not, and their labor had no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.

Don’t make miracle your focus

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

My father told me I should marry the woman that loves me, not the woman I loved.

I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

Modeling is an industry that judges you purely by looks. Today you are on the top of your game and tomorrow a new face arrives and all eyes are on her. It happens every season.