We are not made for law, we are made for love.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

If the will remains in protest it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

Just because you have a hit doesn't mean you're good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.

We have to have a strong law enforcement in America. So we do not go abroad in the search of war, we really are searching for peace, but it is peace through strength.

Only a humble person can come to know God because the humble person can recognize that there is something more powerful, more complete and more perfect than they are.

He treated me like a son and I let him down. I must take some responsibility for him getting the sack. I regret letting him down so much.

I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.