Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do..." speech, he would answer 'ask not.'

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.

Lyrics belongs to us ina specific language, but music is universal.

Sometimes you must slow down to see that the world isnt spinning, rather its your own mind which makes things turn

All the nations that make up the world are burdened down with riches or poverty, obesity or malnutrition, success or failure.

World is beautiful but it is dangerous place to live, there is so much evil behind a normal person.

With your laugh my sorrows are relieved, with your love I forget about my problems, and by your side everything is better.

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

Every girl needs a bestfriend to help her laugh when she thinks she'll never smile again

Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!

Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.