It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

The things I want to know are in books, my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.