Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

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.

See yourself through your mind’s eye being who you want to be, having what you want to have, and doing what you want to do.

It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that no longer is there.

Once you sell people fear, they'll buy just about anything.

We prayed the moon would unstopper long enough to suck us through to the other side so we could see how dull the stars were at their backsides.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

This is what I would ask of the American people, and that is, and the media does not do this terribly often - put things in contact.

It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.

What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?" - "Beauty Queens

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

Life is too short to wonder where you hid your waffle maker.