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.

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.

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.

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

Small things affects small minds.

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking.

It's inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I'm a regular person. I am the every woman who's struggled with my weight.