Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.

Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.

Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.