“Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.”

“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”

“I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.”

“Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?”

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.”

“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.”

“I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.”