Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

For every survivor there is also a rapist.

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

I do today what people won't, so I achieve tomorrow what other people can't.

And after all this time that you still owe, you're still a good-for nothing I don't know.

I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.

Every rein aid must be preceded by an action of the torso. Otherwise you only address the horse's head.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

I am not very moved by historical apologies.