"When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines."

"The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not."

"Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are."

"What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb."

"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free."

"Patience is a virtue because character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."