Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

Sometimes you need to stop fighting to stop drowning

I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time.

Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.

A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.