Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux Klan faded, and Americans got Model A's and automobiles.

Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than anyone. He's one of the best writers as presidents go.

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

Create miracles everyday with the one you love.

If we indeed possess light we shall never be afraid to go and face darkness anywhere, any-time.

The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.

The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.

My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.

Friends don't let friends commit social suicide.