You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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.

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity

It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!

I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.

There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.

I believe that Congress will and must act before then to renew its objections to multiple and discriminatory taxes on the Internet, as well as to taxes that inhibit Internet access.

We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.

America is not divided, our enemies they will be stopped. Cause we the people are united, and still one nation under God.

If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.