I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Reality is not enough for us, that’s why we have invented art to create different realities!

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award

The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

I wasn't supported, I wasn't given any self-esteem.

Doing the right thing is easy. [It is] much more difficult [to...] figure out what [the right thing] is.

When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.