Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country.

The only thing sadder than a battle won is a battle lost.

Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.