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

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.

The major cause of problems are solutions

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

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

For you to maximize time, you want to make sure that every second of the day that comes is converted into some products.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.

I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

There are people who make things happen. There are people who watch things happen and then there are people who ask well, what in the heck happened?

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along.

The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.