It's better for the country when each party looks like it stands for something serious, for some big things, but they're not narrow and they're not bought.

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.

[Christians] are called to distinguish themselves as Christ followers, not community organizers.

The sky is falling. The sky is falling.And I fear you won’t believe it until you’re covered in stars

The blackness of darkness, forever.

Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure.

There's those who talk about it. And there's those who BE about it!

It costs a lot of money to be rich.

But don’t you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix) Not at all. Love I understand completely. It’s hatred that puzzles me. I don’t comprehend finding pleasure in cruelty. (Vik)

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

Don’t judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are now.