"When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existance. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

"It's easy, they sank my boat."

"The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly."

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."

"If I do the right kind of a job, I don't know whether I am going to be here four years from now. -- John F. Kennedy (to Richard M. Nixon, right after the Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961)."

"Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church."

"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special."

"Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality."

"You are the only thing that's holdin' yourself back If you keep waiting you might miss another chance."

"I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood."

"so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again."

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."