The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.

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.

For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets locked inside.

The ocean cries every time it loses a drop.

I looked at Vicki. My beautiful Vicki. My dream. My love. My life.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

I believe 0% is luck. I think you create your own luck, so I don't believe in luck.

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.