The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today.

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.

Forgiveness does not mean I approve of or condone what transpired.

Focus on your goals, if they make you happy then go for it!At times you may become depressed but keeping pushing forward, they're within reach!

No Son [. . .] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".

Kiss is like a smell in a paper bag, they just never go away

Investors aren't willing to accept the idea that we're in an era of lower returns.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up

People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.

If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.

Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.