My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

We had no domestic attacks under Bush.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

One of the major requirement for life's success is discipline.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

People not only need a gospel-inspired vision of work, but they need a new vision of the Scriptures.

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

Be crazy. Be stupid. Be silly. Be weird. Be whatever. Because life is too short to be anything but happy

I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.

Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.