This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

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.

One should show one's scars, not hide them.

Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.

I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. If the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.

When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

I'm drawing in my head pretty much.

Dr. Spock, who said, Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. Never got a dinner!

Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.