No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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.

Life is not everlasting only for You and Me.

Yes, I'm married. But my wife understands that a good politician has to be appealing to the ladies. The fact that I haven't even gotten close to cheating on her is a disappointment to us both.

You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.