Travel not only stirs the blood. . . It also gives strength to the spirit.

Preparedness never caused a war and unpreparedness never prevented one.

[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.

First they will laugh... after that they will either deny or follow you.

Although I had committed just about every sort of assault imaginable on people and even the odd one or two against the police, I still had and still do have respect for the old school policeman.

Ben Scott couldn't be afraid of the supernatural. He didn't believe in the supernatural. Ben Scott was firmly convinced that he didn't believe in anything,

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

I have great respect for both President Obama and the office that he holds

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

Never eat in a restaurant that has a bowling trophy on the cash register.