"We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves."

"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."

"The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours."

"The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing."

"Wisdom principle 25 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 38."

"The stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Great leaders cultivate leaders, not merely followers — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it."