Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.