If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

I am the last President of the United States!

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

Death is never an excuse to stop living.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

Every designer has to stand behind and believe in what they are creating.

The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.

Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.

In dreams begin responsibilitiy.