Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat 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.

Planning and perseverance will bring your mission to fruition.

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

If I'm in a bar and I gotta be sitting next to some clown who's like, "It's my tune," I don't want to hear you belt out Bruce Springsteen. That's why we have jukeboxes! Let's let Bruce be Bruce.

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.