"To live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

"It is a radiant truth that true authority is measured not by subjugation, but by the empowerment of others."

"When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people."

"Rise early, act with intent, and let your accomplishments speak with silent authority. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless."

"In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one."

"A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion."