The foundation of justice is good faith.

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.

No matter what happens, I will always love myself.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority.

I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

Art has always been my salvation.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.