"When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home."

"The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time."

"I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college."

"America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech."

"Vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"It is a profound truth that the canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear."

"Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."