Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

We should totally rely on God, then our success will always be stable and nothing would be able to shake it

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life.

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot.

To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.