"I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family."

"Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat."

"Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A."

"America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people."

"It is a profound truth that the roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The silent observer understands that the roots of true happiness grow deep in the present moment."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

"It is a profound truth that he who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel."