Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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.

Sometimes stories are too long and hard to tell. That's why Photography exists.

I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it.

I respect every mother and I believe people are entitled to use whatever benefits, claims and entitlements, if you like, that are available to them

I have pretty strong views about censorship, and I don't like it. I believe that we should be able to monitor our own families and our own children.

Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.

Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest.

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.