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Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis.

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.