The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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.

Ninja mom's understand that life is a balancing act, and in order to keep the balance they have to learn to enjoy the moment!

The fire that burns against the cold.

Logic is neither a science nor an art but a dodge.

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

I don't ever want to be an average fourth starter. I want to be the big guy.

If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.

In Kabbalah, as in the Hassidic tradition, you cure the body, but you fix the soul. Curing takes time, but fixing, if you know how to do it, is immediate.

God has given me a life far beyond anything I ever dreamed about. God is, man, God is something else man.

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.