Thirty-five years ago, being a cook was the same as being a used-car salesman.
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.
The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.
Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
Don't let the storm take the wind out of your sails.
For me, the greatest hurdle to success has always been failure.
I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.