When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

A sense of humor is needed armor.

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.

If the stock goes down we want to buy more.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.