In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism in a politics of hope?

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

If you work day-and-night, you may lose the sense of time.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Change in all things is sweet.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.