We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.

I believe in the dignity of every person. I believe that while we are all free to practice our religion, and to hold whatever religious beliefs we choose.

Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.

We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.

I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's home.

The world is a very dangerous place. But the world is not too dangerous of a place for the United States of America provided we act according to our principles, provided we act intelligently.

Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.

I think we need an American jobs agenda for the climate challenge which means American renewable grid, more renewable energy.

I think we should want all of our cities to become more compassionate places, frankly.

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.Scripps: No.Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.

You want your coach's blessing.

For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.

Wedlock's like wine - not properly judged of till the second glass.

I've always been a guy that has strived for dominating, not only winning.

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.