"My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours."

"There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me."

"In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us."

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."

"Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted."

"A humble soul understands that the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors."

"Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience."