Volunteering is at the very core of being a human. No one has made it through life without someone else’s help.

Here today you are helping veterans across the country. It makes me proud to be an American.

Does it hurt to leave Atlantic City? Sure. It has been our home since the beginning.

It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.