Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Is it possible for one to enter sleep and wander while never waking? And if so, for how long can one survive this way?

Awareness of your shortcomings is a strengthening process.

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.

Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible.

I still think that it's time for something that reflects the American people.

Everybody's got regrets. Everybody's made mistakes. Nobody's perfect.

I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

I've never really done this. Now I know what scared is.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.