"Do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"It is a humble truth that reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will."

"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

"A quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny."