“The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.”

We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way

We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.

Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.

I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?

The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.

Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Life is a party. Dress for it.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.