It's a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose...

I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.

All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

We are products of their weaknesses or strengths.

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

To be remembered is, I think, a basic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in the desert when it is gone.

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Depression means that you have no point of view.

You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.

I can honestly say that if I was told at this moment that I was dying, not my first, not my second, but certainly my third thought would be that I should never see Italy again.

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.