Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

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'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she's going to drag me there herself.

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.

I'm wired to be neurotic and loud and high-strung.

I learn from winning, because it's much easier to point out things when you lose. But I think the alternate competitors can point out a lot of things when you win.

For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.

90% of the world's data was created in the last two years

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

I went to a house that was not a house. I opened a door that was not a door. And what I saw, I saw.