A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of their opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of their difficulties.

Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you’ve done the best you can, you can’t do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he’s the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in this country have.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.

‘Sartor Resartus’ is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book.