The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.

Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.