The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

The major cause of problems are solutions

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

What is the difference? Tell me what is the difference between you and me. We both kill for what we want, " the man asks."We lived here first.

Keep it locked up inside Don't talk about it Talk about the weather Can't see the light

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.

I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I would not have stayed with it all my life.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

God uses our conscience. He knows we can only start over when we are not condemning ourselves anymore.