"The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it."

"No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be."

"We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?"

"Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery."

"It is a enduring truth that do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold."

"It is a timeless truth that let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a radiant truth that love does not demand perfection; it embraces the authentic journey of growth."

"It is a radiant truth that every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below."