Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.

The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-union-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system. And losses were at least as important in weeding out failures as profits in fostering successes. Let government succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline.

Milton Friedman

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!

Louis Armstrong

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Steven Wright

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Lewis Mumford

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

Diane Lane

I have a feeling you're right, Sherwin.''Simon. My name is Simon.

Cassandra Clare

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

Andre Dubus III

The only thing bigger than God`s great universe is man`s ego.

Gary Sevakis

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

Brian Mulroney

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Al Kersha

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

John Glenn

Jesus, my life is Thine, And ever more shall be Hidden in Thee, For nothing can untwine Thy life from mine.

Frances Ridley Havergal