The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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.

Opportunists seek for a chance.Entrepreneurs make new chances.

All fiction boils down to two plots: Either a stranger comes to town or someone goes on a trip.

There was an embarrassing moment in the White House earlier today. They were looking around while searching for George Bush's military records. They actually found some old Al Gore ballots.

People build up a picture of Johnny Depp as being some sort of weird pirate character. In reality he's incredibly nice... one of the nicest people I've ever met.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted in principles.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.

I had been rejected, but I was still in love.