You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

The major cause of problems are solutions

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

If you think deep inside yourself that you can not live except in the presence of someone that is not true, but this feeling remains true and this is more important than anything else .

I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.

The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.

I'd like to give divorce a good name.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace.

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

You're actually inside the surfboard... you're inside the landscape around you and the ocean is surging, you get totally inside the moment and it's so intense that time disappears, you disappear.

Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.