Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

The house was the color of baby vomit.

The great souls work with great passion.

Knock the door or ring the bell but don't ever push it! Be gentle!

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder.

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it.

I'm as good as Jean-Claude Van Damme when it comes to martial arts. Sounding a little cocky aren't I

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.