No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.

A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.

Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it.

Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.

I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I would go from movie to movie to movie.

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.