I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

The major cause of problems are solutions

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act.

Some of the best mysteries end in a love story.

You can never be defeated in life, you are a learner.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

1992 was the worst year of my life, to watch my dad lose. It was a painful experience. Yet when I became president, it was so much easier to be president.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.