"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

"It is a subtle truth that the test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans."

"The true measure of a man is the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering."

"Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future."