"The greatest journey starts when every challenge is an invitation to grow stronger."

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

"The silent observer understands that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"It is a timeless truth that a dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'"

"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war."