Where the rivers meetyou tell me of your black dreams.Your memories make me uneasy.But I listen because I knowmy listening, like all other listeningallows you to heal.

A leader should not be a dictator.

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

[On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.

Yeah, I'm not into sports. If someone told me I had athlete's foot, I'd say that's not my foot!

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution