The gratitude ... should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy.

There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

...men are poor soldiers in love's war. And it is a war-one that never ends.

I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.

...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....

So here I am writing my zombie story and my lead character decides to betray me.

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!

Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.