With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

When I ask people to give, I can’t be on television if they don’t; I can’t help people, if I don’t – I mean, it takes money.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Every President wants to do right.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

I will never retire unless I have to.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Never, never, never give up.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

Good luck has its storms.