Doing the right thing is easy. [It is] much more difficult [to...] figure out what [the right thing] is.

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.

Shut up and write.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

You snuck up on me,” she said. “I guess I’m not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?” Simon shrugged. “Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.