Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

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.

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

Why do you care?" His eyes looked casually over my shoulder, down the hallway then flicked back to me. "Are you jealous?" his left eyebrow rose sli

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.