"You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better"

"I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat"

"Find a good teacher, don't betray yourself to succeed and be a better person before being a better actor"

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life"

"There is more to life than increasing its speed"

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly"

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day"

"Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit"

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"