Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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.

The ultimate success of Masonry depends on the intelligence of her disciples.

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.

BSB are my personal favorites.

Today House Republicans are doing what they always do - using taxpayers' money to continue investigating claims that have already been debunked just to keep them in the headlines one more day.

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.

I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.

I want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, 'cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.