Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know for sure.

I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.

People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Who hasn't wanted to die at one time or another?

You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.

If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.

Jesus loves you... He's not 'in love' with you.

Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

I do feel songwriting is a bit of its own creature and the writerliness of it...it's freeing. It's good for people who have an innate resistance to any restrictions whatsoever.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.