Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Everything needed for success has been placed into us from the beginning

There is not a day that we do not have a chance to choose between the devil’s clever promises and God’s sure Word.

Every search for a hero must begin with something which every hero requires - a villain.

Before the Apocalypse, the closest I'd gotten to death was buying steaks at the supermarket.

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.