“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.”

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Day by day and night by night we were together – all else has long been forgotten by me.

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

A man can be a hero in any profession.

Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.

I struggle for what I believe in. Life is short, it’s impossible to repeat something; you have to take advantage of things when you can reach them.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.

I firmly believe you’re never supposed to wish for more than you’re willing to work for. Expectations should never exceed your effort.

Believe me, it is actions that count.

I have no regrets. If you regret things, you’re sort of stepping backwards. I’m a believer in going forwards.

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.