The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Without strength, can we work to create wealth?

Uncommon faith gives you uncommon power.

A man who is born to be hanged can never be drowned.

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

People often ask me why don't you have a girlfriend. Then I smile and say: I have thousands some just haven't met me yet

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.