The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.

To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

Tyson is a lot better than I thought, a lot better. People can talk about Spinks all they want... Tyson is the true champion.

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.

If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.

I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing.