A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes.

I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There's no excuse for not.

It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

If we continue to believe God and place our trust in Him, bad things ultimately give way to better things.

You can focus your mind. You can respect your body. All of that is important.

Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

I lost you once, I think I can do it again.