Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.
Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.
The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.
Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.
But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
I'm not a social friend of the Reagans. That's by their choice and by mine. They don't drink enough.
Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.