I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.

I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light.

I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.

Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.