This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacityand the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to lifeour objective must also be to add new life to those years.

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades to come - compels us to invest in our nation's future, to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.