At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?

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.

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.

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.

Evil gains work their punishment.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.

Children with Autism aren't missing. Instead, they are off making discoveries

To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30

Always flat front. You've got to be deeply suspicious of a man who consciously goes with pleats. Why would you do that?

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.