William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.

We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

My soul already existed - you just called out to me, and the wind brought me to you.

I can make you feel, and I can scare you for real.-Misty Lee

...and without love, one is a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it, and we as well die.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do

I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.