"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."

"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."

"It is a steadfast truth that to lead with integrity is to walk the narrow path where words and actions are one — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

"You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery."

"He who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."

"Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations."