I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

Less government in business and more business in government.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

I knew that this job would be too much for me.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.

Why?Because I am a sovereign being and I do what I desire to do as I feel led.That is all.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

No one should have to pay for love in flesh or blood. (Acheron)

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.

Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent.

Sleep is very precious to me. I love to sleep.