"We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward."

“Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.”

“She soars on her own wings.”

“I don't like the celebrity gossip culture, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it. I don't care about the Kardashians, or any of them.”

“The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.”

“The person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires”

Source : Tony Jeary, Kim Dower, J.E. Fishman (2005). “Life Is a Series of Presentations: Eight Ways to Inspire, Inform, and Influence Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

Source : Remarks in the House, as quoted in "Congressional Record", vol. 11, p. 1611, February 15, 1881.

“My pleasure was to copy, not to create.”

“Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.”