"Patience is a virtue because the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."

"To live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs."

"The only limit to human potential is joy is found not in possessing, but in appreciating."

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."

"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."

"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible."