Financial storm definitely passed.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago ... How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom - the clothing of the grave - that some people believe she is already fitted for.