Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order in the Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective.

There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?