There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

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.

What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as bloody declarations of war. (“Is heaven a place in the sky?”)

Strength is not something you have, it's something you find.

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

Salvation is not about proving the existence of God

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

I don't have a favorite director just like I don't have a favorite color or I don't have a favorite food. I like everything.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.

To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.