That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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.

As a rule children of tough and imperious parents sticking to authoritarian method of upbringing have a victim complex

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons set up a business to profit from public office. They sold access and specific actions by and really for I guess the making of large amounts of money.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.

All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.