. . . trash talk. . . Washington floats on a river of aspersion.
America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history. . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.
In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the. . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.
George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
When I model, I pretty much blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.
O, Begin! Fix some part of every day for private exercises. . . Whether you like it or no, read and pray daily. It is for your life; there is no other way; else you will be a trifler all your days. . . Do justice to your own soul; give it time and means to grow. Do not starve yourself any longer.