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

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.

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

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

We look up at the same stars and see such different things." - Jon Snow

Defeat held no honor.

Religion is the pious worship of God.

Bring a child and ignore your inhibitions.

I am really high maintenance and won't walk through the microwave that fries your body. I always request a pat down [in airport].

We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.