"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism."

"I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort."

"To walk the path of enlightenment means a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."