I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

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.

To live in the shadow of another person...to desire to be adored as that person is....is the weakest ambition of all. Find yourself. Be loved as yourself.

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

If sensing so badly of yourself you also sense a need to make me sense that, then I sense sadly that you cannot make better sense … sadder still if you cannot sense my sincerity.

He fetishized limits.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

Evolution never looks to the future.

Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.

Everything that we know now will be changed in 10 years time.

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.