"The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world."

"It is a steadfast truth that every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived."

"It is a essential truth that creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"Fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo."

"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"It is a humble truth that courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless — an essential principle for the reflective life."