Strict law is often great injustice.

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.

You're all incredibly thoughtful souls who keep my head attached to my body.

Mothers and fathers are born everywhere. What the world needs are leaders.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

You can't fall in love with someone in a day.""Romeo and Juliet did, " Melanie says, tugging me toward the exit."Yeah, and then they killed themselves a few hours later. Thanks for the pep talk, Mel.

What I like the best is when I can be still and not move.

What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise.

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!

The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.

I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.