I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it's nice and safe and secure.

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.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)

It's a wonder Hell don't open up and swallow her as the highlight of the service.

How to double your money: Fold it over once and put it back in your pocket.

And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of

Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.