There's nothing better than cake but more cake.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

We all live under the same sky but we don't all have the same horizon.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!

Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.