Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.