In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'

Part of courage is simple consistency.

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.

The perfect day is going to bed with a dream and waking up with a purpose.

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.

all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

We noticed that, but in reality we have to take it one game at a time.

The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use in your schools, your communities and throughout your lives.

Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.