No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

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.

ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.

Dreams can either die young or mature to become realities depending on how they are handled!

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

Dreamers and thinkers believe in innovative ideas and they become the greatest students of all time.

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.

It's not nice to make fun of people with issues.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.