At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger.

America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

The arts vividly illustrate the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip. My bullet bill this month was going to be huge.

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.

51 years ago, when Hillary Clinton was working on the Goldwater campaign, Bernie Sanders was getting locked up for my rights. 50 years later he's talking about doing something and not talking.

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

What we do stems directly from what we believe.

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.