I don't want to interfere with my successor's presidency.

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

True artists scorn nothing.

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.

The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we dont really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, were finally starting to learn.

We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

Recovery challenges everything we 'knew to be true'.

Don't forget to do something for other people.

I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

Love softens everything except our sense of integrity.