The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.

[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first."

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.