There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

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.

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

Sometimes an impulse is more rewarding than a calculation.

Shame is the demon that keeps many of us trapped in our pain

I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things.

When we have an item that has value to the school and the athletic department, we cannot throw it away just to be fair.

A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma.

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did

I don't like to use the word sacrifice.