The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.

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.

Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.

Make no mistake, sin has been dealt with once for all, and we are as close to Him as we will ever be.

In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

The Steelers drafted guys who were bigger, stronger and faster than me, but they never found one who could take my job away from me.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.