There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press. . . and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted, on the curtained window-panes of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes and harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests.
In the end [of the "2012"], there were no ships, no water, no nothing. Only the interiors [were real]. Everything else had to be made, and that is always challenging.
Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.