"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."

"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind."

"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."

"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"I think the success of democracy is not really police security it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends."

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."