I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate admirable and noble kind of love.

I know that throughout their history the people of the United States defended their freedom their liberty their justice and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision but never once have I seen him break his cool lose his composure or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest more amazing than self-defense and as courageous as either one.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.