No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

[Lyndon] was the most outspoken, straightforward, determined person I’d ever encountered. I knew I’d met something remarkable-but I didn’t know quite what.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

It’s odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don’t quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.