"On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians."

"The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny."

"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense…human rights invented America."

"When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace."

"A dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"Fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: I will try once more tomorrow. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that the canvas of tomorrow is painted with the actions of today."