The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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.

Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

The worst outcome of not trying is never getting to fail.

When we move toward rejected emotions and surround them with loving attention, they quickly break into manageable bits until they are gone.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

I pray that you win, that you never ever pay for any of my sins

My only job is to be happy. So for everybody that cares about me and is not trying to be all up in a celebrity's business, just know that I'm happy. My son is happy. We enjoy our lives.

As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.