Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Facts are stubborn things.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.