The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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.

If you want to open, come close to me, I have a key which can open the locked door of your destiny.

O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.

Everyone should go inward, get curious about themselves, and investigate their shadows. It's one of the most important gifts we can give humanity. It's one of our most vital causes.

If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it.

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way more than a cat does.

True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.