When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their eyes, tell the truth and make them blink.

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.

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

Today, professional football is about profit and making money. But it's not about how much money you spend, it's about how wisely you spend it.

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

Today, capitalism faces a deep structural crisis.

Tell the truth and not the facts.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period.