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.

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.

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.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Grace is a good gift of God.

You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.

We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up.

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.

I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.

Short on glamour and long on tragedy.

It's right to learn, even from the enemy.

You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.