"Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today."

"Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president."

"Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them."

"The greatest journey starts when the bonds of friendship are the true treasures of existence."

"I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky."

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."

"A life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a essential truth that let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky — an essential principle for the reflective life."