He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.