The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

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.

Gandhi said that whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it, because nobody else will.I tend to agree with the first part.

To climb the highest peaks, to travel through… celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth living.

I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time.

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

Where are you looking at blessing as bondage, something you GET to do as something you've GOT to do?

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

Americans want to be exposed to the opportunities that a changing world can offer.

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free.