Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

The major cause of problems are solutions

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

We have been blessed with the privilege to live life. May we live to the fullness.

In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.

In the same way that the best lies have an element of truth, maybe evil is made all the more powerful when it is accompanied by the startling presence of grace.

I don't want to think about it, but I have to. Someone has to. I see the signs of spring and I weep...

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.

I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

The promises of God become the power of God when they are believed and acted upon.