"A dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter."

"As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving."

"A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold."

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."