"The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were."

"Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise."

"Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action."

"Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future."

"I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business."

"For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences."