In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

A sense of humor is needed armor.

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.

Success is living your essence.

If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

Every week you have to play well to be the champion.