“Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.”

“The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.”

“If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.”

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”

“I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.”

“I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a hous...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.”

“There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.”

“If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.”

“Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.”

“A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.”

“We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.”