We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

I am obsessed with reading and writing.

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal.

Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.

I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.

People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'

Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.