A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

That door had a lot to say, people entered and people left but never the same!

I watched something vanish, as if I was in a dream from which I couldn't wake.

The liars among us will know that every lie must contain a certain amount of truth if it's to be convincing. A dash of truth is often enough, but it's indispensable, like the olive in the martini.

It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

I've been a victor of circumstance.

I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.

Out of near disaster, came real progress.

I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen I got pretty serious about it.

In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.

Yes, I-- I think I love her. Is that nuts?