There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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.

Spirituality can exists only in a pure heart.

Memories aren't supposed to be hidden anyway.

There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.

Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.

God made us for more than just barely getting by. We weren't meant to sit on the sidelines of life because with God, we are on the winning team!

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.