"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself."

"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."

"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."

"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."

"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it."

"A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it."

"It is a timeless truth that do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul — an essential principle for the reflective life."