No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.

I cant summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tatis Play Time. You just have to see it.

When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

It's a Christmas miracle. I had no tree. Now I have a forest.

What's wisdom if not the will to learn the lessons, which Nature puts in one's way at every step?

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

I ask a lot because I'm very curious - especially about ex-girlfriends. I'm pretty good at getting the answers, too.

I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

Would somebody please explain to me those signs that say, "No animals allowed except for Seeing Eye Dogs?" Who is that sign for? Is it for the dog, or the blind person?

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

I slowly breathe in and out,and i find myself relaxing more and more with each breath

I'm not really a foodie; I could eat the same thing every night, and I go to restaurants that I can walk to.