The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life

Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.