Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

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.

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

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.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

Don't be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that.

It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.

Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.