You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.

You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.

If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased.

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

Let me hear your body talk.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.