Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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.

I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.

I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.

Wander into the center of the circle of wonder.

I did my dissertation on Kafka.

I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.

It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.