There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

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.

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

Miss can I get a second to speak and quietly mention, That I am so into who you are, can I get your attention?

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

Obviously people in Seattle love a little more sun but also nothing is built for it, i miss my rain.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

May I say that I am delighted that my favorite alpha is feeling better. Why, you'll be running recklessly into danger against overwhelming odds anytime now.

You can’t bite your nose off to spite your face.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.