A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

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.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.

It's one thing for someone to travel over to Syria and Iraq and come back. But, boy, it's a lot easier if they activate someone who's already here.

Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.

Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.

I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with. That was pretty awful. Did you know that in poetry, every line does not need to rhyme?

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

He's a good sportsman but his best at world trash talking.