"When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday -- no matter what happened Tuesday."

"It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before... it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before."

"Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are."

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

"Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity."

"The only thing sadder than a battle won is a battle lost."

"All governmental intervention has as its object a forcible altering of what people would do were they unrestrained."

"If I do the right kind of a job, I don't know whether I am going to be here four years from now. -- John F. Kennedy (to Richard M. Nixon, right after the Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961)."

"He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more."

"For visions come not to polluted eyes."