It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

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.

I am a great scholar.I am a great scientist.

One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.