No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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.

It's a pook, a messenger...spy is more like it, " Kern explained sourly. "This one will tattle, and I'll never hear the end of it when I go back." An eyebrow lifted. "Consorting with a human.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

I feel honored and privileged to have represented the USA program over the past 16 years. USA Hockey will always be a part of me and I will cherish the experiences and memories with this team.

The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.

We must understand that our education now is going to be sincerity, to speak from your own heart and not from outside.

In the mornings I used to say goodbye to my wife like someone going to work. I'd leave the house, walk around a few blocks, and come back like a person arriving at the office.