A sense of humor is needed armor.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.

Knowledge is life.

In heaven there will be no tears, because every tear was cried when Jesus died on the cross.

And when one song stops playing write the one that will save your life.

Love ends abruptly. In fact, this is central to endings of most sort. We just don't admit that.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.

A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort

My name is "A Pimp named Slickback" Wait... A Pimp?? ... Named Slickback. Yes, please say the whole thing if you would. Yes, that includs the "A Pimp Named" part. Yes Tom, everytime.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.