I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'

Part of courage is simple consistency.

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.

Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand.Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle.

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.

Face your fear and wipe your tears.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

The religion of Freemasonry is not Christian

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

A change of pace in terms of your running pace will give you strength psychologically.

Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own!