The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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 would have watched her from the roof, you would have seen a broad grin over her face.

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

I appreciate individualism.

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

Become important to others.

As Americans we've gotta make sure that we begin to rebuild and get our military the resources they need to defend us.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!