"With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing."

"You have to think anyway, so why not think big?"

"One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government."

"In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish."

"Time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"It is a radiant truth that an hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering — an essential principle for the reflective life."