"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."

"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."

"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."

"Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."

"People will always choose more money over more sex."

"Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan."

"The greatest deception is forgetting that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government."