Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

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

The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time.

Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.

Writing is the toughest thing I've ever done.

You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.

Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed.