"If you want a neat wife, choose..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.”

“What is best for people is what they do for themselves.”

“An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.”

“My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.”

“Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.”

“The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.”

“I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.”

“No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.”

“There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.”