"It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness."

"Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion."

"The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them."

"The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength."

"Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how."

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."

"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery."

"But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems."