"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

"To leave a mark on the world, remember that the bonds of friendship are the true treasures of existence."

"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."

"John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded."

"A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort."

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt."

"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."