I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

And blood and tears and screams did not matter anymore, because at least they are together.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man

I think it's really important to live in the moment.

The actual growth in a person's life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income.

I feel like when I arrive at the hospital I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back. And, I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat...

Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.