You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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.

You need to get out of the nest if you ever want to fly.

My name is Skippito Friskito. (clap-clap)I fear not a single bandito. (clap-clap)My manners are mellow, I'm sweet like the Jell-o, I get the job done, yes indeed-o. (clap-clap)

For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things.

Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

A good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness.