Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux Klan faded, and Americans got Model A's and automobiles.

Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than anyone. He's one of the best writers as presidents go.

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

Freedom wanders in the landscape of the mind, and nourishes the deepest yearnings of the soul.

If this is a smart world then I want to be stupid.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

Faultless in spite of all her faults.

I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton.

Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths—as many paths as there are artists.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

We are stronger together than we are alone.