It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

With God’s help in the grasp of addiction you’ll find the truth. When we understand this and its purity, then true healing can begin.

I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

I was the No. 1 player coming into college and I want to be the No. 1 player heading into the NFL. That's definitely one of my goals.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!"

Seventy-five percent of all Americans believe that angels are real. Which is amazing when you consider that forty percent of all Americans think DNA evidence is unreliable.