Your performance depends on your people. Select the best train them and back them. When errors occur give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm for its hospitality and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy like the joys afforded by art or life.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors hospitals and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors hospitals medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

As an American you have a right to good health care that is effective accessible and affordable that serves you from infancy through old age that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!