Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

When small men attempt great enterprises they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

I always entertain great hopes.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Unfortunately corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

Health care reform the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term was passed before we entered the world of divided government.