Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?

For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.

It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o' clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.

We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes.

He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick.

She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)

The Lord put it clearly: you cannot serve two masters. You have to choose between God and money.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.