We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

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.

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

It's a myth that boys don't like to gossip.

Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.

I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.

For some strange reason I can put five bullets into that red thing in the middle of the target.

Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one's thought.

Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.

David I knock you out! - While pointing to the camera with a smirk.