The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're pale, tired, and unready. Too bad, since it's their job to be an alternative, not an embarrassment.

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.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity – another man’s, I mean.

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

Typically, I prefer to gag my own men. I'd never considered having them delivered to me that way.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

What I like about stand-up is, it's truthful. I'm not up there trying to get laid or look cool. I'm up there because I really love it, and it makes people happier.

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought