"Every second given to regret is a precious second stolen from creation."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it."

"He who seeks peace must remember that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"It is a enduring truth that the spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."