The anvil is hard so that it can help shape the blade. If life were easy, we would all be soft and misshapen shards of metal, tossed into a bin.

Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

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.

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house

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.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

i'd rather not look for a job... to let a fine one find me. And that definitely wouldn't define me as a snob!

Most people believe that aging is normal but nobody defines what normal aging is.

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Music's the medicine of the mind.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

I know now that it's really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.

In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

There's a lot of idiots in Hollywood, a lot of people with no imagination, so as an actor you have to constantly re-show them what you can do.