Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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.

The extra-ordinary secret to success is nothing but ordinary belief.

Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag.

If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries, ' I told him. 'It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.

You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

It's kind of the Washington, D.C., chattering class. They kind of talk amongst themselves.

Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.