Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

Every path that my foot has treaded was divinely ordered.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

Hillary Clinton's plan is going to raise taxes and even double your taxes. Her tax plan is a disaster.

Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'

Maybe there wasn't much hot water in the showers. I'm not sure.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.