A president cant go to every memorial service.

For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.

Americas presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.

Time is valuable; people are busy.

If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.

Dwight Eisenhower was candid in private, but he was circumspect in public.

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

If you have no will to change it you have no right to criticize it.

One little secret of the guys who have won one slam, is that we don't want other guys to win one because its like a bit of a special fraternity.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

We will break the cycle of amnesty and illegal immigration. There will be no amnesty.

I think everybody has a secret life.

I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.