Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.

The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.

You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.

I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.

[Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III

Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

Work hard. "Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased.

I still look at myself and want to improve.

My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

The common damn'd shun their society.

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.