"Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest."

"It is a essential truth that every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived."

"The universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market."

"Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent."

"I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism."

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."