There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.

If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets.

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient.

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.

Motivation clears the head faster than a nasal spray.