Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

Throughout the day, anytime you find yourself feeling stressed or wanting to complain, stop for 10 seconds and breathe. Count your breaths and your blessings.

Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.

i've never asked him but i'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his strubbery

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

Any fight that Floyd Mayweather is in is going to be entertaining, regardless. People come to see an icon, a living legend, a superstar.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.

Sudden love is latest cured.

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.