The duty of the Government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws.

The absence is more important than the presence.

And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, "Yes, the stars always make me laugh!"

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.