"Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women."

"I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?"

"All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea."

"Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way."

"Love is meant to be an adventure!!"

"Things will work out. Keep trying. Be believing. Don't get discouraged. Things will work out."

"Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious."

"Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better."

"In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it."

"Look for the Sunlight through the Clouds."

"The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts."

"To save a girl is to save generations!"

"Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality."

"When referring to an individual, including yourself, never use the word 'just'."

"Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe."

"It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God."

"Walk by faith. God will open the way. When there is no way, He will open the way."

"Live today as if you were going to live forever, for you surely shall."

"Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny."

"Let us stand a little taller, if you don't, you will never strengthen yourself"

"A marvelous thing it would be to stand with confidence, unafraid, unashamed, and unembarrassed in the presence of God."

"I am totally in the hands of the Lord."

"Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way."

"Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius."

"Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith."

"Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart."

"Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds."

"He who is our Eternal Father has blessed you with miraculous powers of mind and body. He never intended that you should be less than the crowning glory of His creations."

"I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass."

"If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author."

"Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life."

"Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites."

"For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours."

"It will not be a surprise to you to learn I'm more interested in the future of the Arctic Circle than the future of the Arctic Monkeys."

"I don't believe that any prime minister would send our troops into conflict without the assurance from the military that they had the equipment necessary for the operation."

"Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage."

"Almost certainly, my ancestors had travelled by sea from Sweden to England in search of prosperity, and the evidence suggests they left Sweden around the ninth or 10th centuries."

"I think it's important that people know who you are and... can ask any questions they like about you."

"Meet the challenges of the time."

"Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to."

"Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet."

"I'm all for greater co-operation between Europe and America because I think that sometimes we've missed out on the benefits that transatlantic trade could give both continents, and I've been pressing this since 1997."

"To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake."

"Famously, I'm somewhat impatient."

"There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do."

"People believe in the power of education to change lives."

"You can drink too much tea."

"When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do."

"When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve."

"I've got a job to do."