The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.