"Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another."

"I played by the rules of politics as I found them."

"I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate."

"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."

"Beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person."

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."