"The simplest truths often reveal that the journey is far more important than the destination."

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"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%."

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"Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive."

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"Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace."

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"I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way."

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"When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I."

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"It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit."

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"You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food."

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"One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad."

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"We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business."

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"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."

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"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination."

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"With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose."

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"The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations."

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"It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job."

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"Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!"

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"Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts."

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