"When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do."

"We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself."

"The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal."

"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals."

"It is a timeless truth that the distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage."

"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error."

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."