They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

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.

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

That's the thing about being a criminal, " Kat told her. "Nothing ever goes according to plan.

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

Jesus is the most normal Christian in the Bible.

Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

I am not just my hair; I proved to myself that I am a cast of characters. I'm feeling freer to venture out of the 'look' people know me for.

Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".

When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.