The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'

What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.

Part of courage is simple consistency.