Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

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 world is not beautiful: And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty.

I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.

Your environment will become you. Surround yourself with people who have the same dream as you, who have accomplished what you want & more.

We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.

My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.

Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity.