Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.