My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you’ve still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of...

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who...

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

I think if you look at yesterday’s New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than...

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Am I 53 or 54? I think I’m 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I’ll be 55.

Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

This (George W. Bush’s) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.